DearSmallChurchPastor

Bite sized snippets of knowledge that all pastors should know but few pastors demonstrate. The micro church can have macro Kingdom impact.

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Understand the Church has always been multi-ethnic and multi-racial.

Acts 8:26-39

#BlackHistoryMonth
#UnityInChrist

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Part of Black History Month must be an acknowledgement that white churches of America failed to truly live the Gospel.

#BlackHistoryMonth
#RacialReconciliationSunday

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If you love God you must seek to build up and better others. No matter the skin color.

1 John 4:20

#RacialReconciliation
#BlackHistoryMonth

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Racial reconciliation is the Gospel.

Micah 6:8

#RacialReconciliationSunday
#GospelOnly

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What are you doing in your church for Black History Month?

#BlackHistoryMonth
#UnityInChrist

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Sometimes the problem isn't you.
Sometime it is.

#Take Responsibility
#FixYourself

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Sometimes the problem isn't you.

#DontBearNeedlessGuilt

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Ask visitors what they honestly think of your church. Whether they choose to come back or not.

#BecomingAWelcomingChurch
#KnowingIsHalfTheBattle

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@KyleJamesHoward @BarnabasPiper I started out disagreeing and then each subsequent tweet added more wisdom and clarity. Twitter is a tough place to communicate it. You navigate it well. Great thoughts.

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Ministry is difficult because God never calls us to be comfortable.

#OutOfTheComfortZone
#DoHardThings

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75 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. A reminder that all humans are made in Imago Dei regardless of skin color, gender, religion, or culture.

#HolocaustRemembranceDay
#imagoDei

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If you preach the gospel without giving people hope for their present circumstances you aren't preaching the gospel.

#SocialJustice
#GiveHope

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If you are using Philemon as a Biblical defense for slavery you have missed the entire point of Philemon.

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If you aren't listening to minorities neither will your congregation.

#MLKJr
#BeAListener

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If you only minister to those who love you then only those who love you will listen to you.

#UnconditionalLove
#LoveLikeASamaritan

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Preaching and social justice have been linked since the Old Testament.

#MLKJr #Micah

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If you aren't giving a voice to the voiceless then give up your pulpit time to someone who will.

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I have seen many people walk away from vital service because they were allowed to work but not to speak.

[Elizabeth -Leiuna- Wofford @fcorin13]

I feel this so deeply right now.

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@wisdom_calls @night_aussie @laalex2 @pulpitpenblog I think 1 Corinthians 7 shows that marriage is not the default state.

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I really hate the H word. It is so over used today.

[Carey Nieuwhof @cnieuwhof]

We have a million heresy hunters out there that want to say, 'Hey, all these guys are heretics, except for me and my four pastors I like.' -Francis Chan

Great NEW PODCAST on what Francis actually said about moving to Asia: https://t.co/fINwjwSVkJ