Brian Lightsey

Christ Follower, Husband, Father, Founding & Lead Pastor of Life Church in Leander, TX, and Proud Longhorn

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@reachjulieroys After demanding from others absolute loyalty to his wife, unfortunately Boshoff secretly divorced her in October 2024.

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@JonnyRoot_ @HwsEleutheroi @lecrae Incorrect

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@VoteWokeGoBroke @JonnyRoot_ @HwsEleutheroi @lecrae He also reconstructed and is a good place.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack It was tragic that he was killed for his beliefs. But it was also tragic that he was so young and still developing his views and voice. I believe he would’ve softened some and nuanced more as he aged. He was already doing it in some contexts. Some of his handlers failed him.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack It’s like being in an argument with my wife and saying, “Our marriage was a mistake,” and then qualifying it by talking about the intent being good, but also talking about all the problems. All she is going to hear is, “The marriage was a mistake.” It only confuses things.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack Good question. It’s not what he believed. It’s what he said. When many people of Color hear, “The CRM was a mistake,” they think he believed it was a mistake because that is exactly what he said, repeatedly. They feel disrespected by that.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack I don’t believe he thought Black people are inferior. The original post was not about that. It was about some of his disrespectful racial rhetoric. His CRM comments were only an example.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack I very much appreciate this civil conversation. Thank you. We just see it differently. I do not believe that he was against lifting up people of Color. I just think he should not have said that the 1960s CRM was a mistake. Because much Good came out of it, even with the concerns.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack Got it. Just don't say something was a mistake, then praise it, then point out concerns. Leave out it was a mistake. BTW: Any legislation can be misapplied (loopholes, etc.). As you already said, Kirk sometimes needed to be more careful with his words and tone. That's the point.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack https://t.co/de7J9zs8GT

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack https://t.co/soyx3fZ6CH

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack Denigrating not intergrating

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack 100% agree. He would always qualify it in some way. But this does not negate his broad-stroked inaccurate statement that the CRM was a mistake. He should have mentioned his concerns with the applications without integrating the entire movement by saying it was all a mistake.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack Yes. You are making my point. He should have just said that. Keep it on welfare without saying the whole CRM movement was a mistake. This is why people insist that he said some incorrect things.

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@dtronic234 @pastordmack He also made the classic mistake of confusing correlation with causation. The black family was more intact before the Civil Rights Movement than after it. He attributed the breakdown to the CRM. He had no proof other than correlation, which is no proof at all.

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@jaredhmoore @megbasham Correct. But we cannot discriminate on religious grounds. Reread the First Amendment. This is not even arguable. The courts will strike down any religious discrimination. This is what initiated my first post. My point is we can't evict, so we must evangelize.

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@jaredhmoore @megbasham This comment shows no faith in the power of the gospel. You are being driven by fear.

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@jaredhmoore @megbasham You still have not answered how you can legally only allow Christians into our country. That is my point. We cannot prevent non-Christian immigrants from entering with their religious beliefs. So let's love and evangelize them instead of hating and vilifying them.