Hal Hester

Lead Pastor of VineLife Church. Loving God, my wife, my family and my church, without being religious or irreverent.

[Hal Hester @JalapenoHal]

I am taking the next six weeks off of social media (February 22-April 9) for lent and mental health too. Looking forward to defraging my mind 😉

[Hal Hester @JalapenoHal]

@mbird12 Episcopagan

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

I've watched it a hundred times.

A family starts attending a missional church and immediately loves it's simplicity, shared-life in community, and presence in the neighborhood.

BUT they haven't dealt w/ their Consumerism yet. There's a detox process they need to undergo.

1/2

[Alexander F. Venter @AlexanderVenter]

Yes to what Dallas said. The freedom of choice. The importance of what we routinely place before our minds.

[DallasAWillard @DallasAWillard]

Instead of dealing with abstractions, the good person treats those immediately around him and herself with respect and care. #DallasWillard #DisappearanceOfMoralKnowledge

[Hal Hester @JalapenoHal]

@erichoke 😂

[Joshua Pease @joshuadpease]

Over the past few years I’ve found myself increasingly at odds w/ the religious world I came from. I’ve been accused of hurting the church, being a heretic, or worst of all, liberal.

What’s genuinely sad about this is I feel like I’m being who they raised me to be🧵

[Hal Hester @JalapenoHal]

@lindsaymizell 😂

[Rich Nathan @RichNathan]

The Hebrew Bible is filled with little hidden treasures! For example, Psalm 136 repeats the refrain: “His love endures forever“ 26 times. 26 is also the numerical value of the Lord’s name YHWH in Hebrew! To know the Lord, is to know that his essential quality is enduring love!

[Hal Hester @JalapenoHal]

@ChanceJuliano @mbird12 Let me see St Patrick

[DallasAWillard @DallasAWillard]

Throughout history it has been knowledge —real or presumed—that was invoked to provide a place to stand in opposing, correcting, and refining moral and immoral traditions and practices. #DallasWillard #DisappearanceOfMoralKnowledge

[Lesslie Newbigin @LesslieNewbigin]

When numerical growth is taken as the criterion of judgment on the church, we are transported with alarming ease into the world of the military campaign or the commercial sales drive.

[Renovaré @renovare]

We are utterly dependent upon Jesus Christ, our ever-living Savior, Teacher, Lord, and Friend for genuine spiritual transformation.

[Julie Roys @reachjulieroys]

Most Americans incl Christians have a low opinion of celebrity pastors & megachurches finds @BarnaGroup survey

“Platforms take even as they give” said author @KatelynBeaty. “When (celebrity pastors) fall, they fall faster & farther than a local pastor…"
https://t.co/YLhs0fbLTQ

[Luke Simmons @lukedsimmons]

@joshuawhetstine I agree with your basic point, but would argue that mission was intended to be the center — even in Acts. When community is the center, it still gets jacked up and God ends up having to scatter everybody.

[J L ᚹᚺᛖᛏᛊᛏᛁᚾᛖ @joshuawhetstine]

Many American churches made preaching the center of all things church, then wondered why it became so easy for so many to justify simply watching church from home.

Had community been the center, like the book of Acts, you wouldn't be having this problem in 2023.

[Rich Nathan @RichNathan]

I’ve read that Christianity is becoming a global faith. Christianity has always been a global faith reaching Egypt in the 1st C, India perhaps at a similar time, China by the 6th C! Ethiopia was one of the first Christian countries. Christianity was never simply an ethnic faith!

[Dallas Willard (IVP) @DailyWillard]

"Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ."
—Dallas Willard, 'The Great Omission' #DallasWillard

[Vineyard USA @vineyardusa]

Joining Dr. Caleb Maskell (AND of Theology & Education) for the "Jesus Revolution and the Story of the Vineyard" webcast is Kenn & Joanie Gulliksen, Chuck Girard, Cindy Rethmeier, & Mike Turrigiano!

May 22nd at 10:00 am MST: https://t.co/HISEYWNWml

#vineyardusa #wearevineyard

[Rich Nathan @RichNathan]

A major problem for Christians involved in politics is that we assume that our enemies are God’s enemies and that God feels the same way towards his enemies as we do. We want our enemies to be destroyed. God wants his enemies to turn so that they might experience his mercy!

[Hal Hester @JalapenoHal]

@mbird12 Ok, you got me on Indian food. A couple of those things, like cricket and Yorkshire pudding I don’t care. University I would love to experience even at 56. Healthcare? If that includes English dental, I don’t think I am interested 😂