The day before he died, John Owen wrote to his best friend:
“I am leaving the ship of the church in a storm...Live, pray, hope, wait patiently, and do not despond. The promise stands invincible, that He will never leave us, nor forsake us.”
We desperately need to hear this now.
@neilschori@KyleJamesHoward Interesting you gave that rebuke to me and not to Kyle as well. I think this reveals something about your heart. Especially since Kyles OP was about color...
"Once the church determines its purpose is to engage and attract the culture rather than edify and equip the saints, it sets out on a path that will always lead to worldliness and apostasy." - John MacArthur, Christ's Call to Reform the Church, Moody, 2018.
@xjm716 Yes... Peter’s sin in Antioch has nothing to do with ethnic requirements for reaching anyone with the gospel... so I don’t really know what you’re trying to say?
We live in a cesspool of a culture where to be “evangelical” now means to be clever and relevant rather than holding firm the faith once for all delivered to the saints without wavering. #SolaScriptura#ReviveUsAgain
Our Lord calls it a “New birth, or being born again, or born from above.” These are not barely figurative expressions..but they denote a real, moral change of heart and life, a real participation of the divine life in the soul of man.
@andrewfooshay@MattChandler74@DerwinLGray @pulpitpenblog It was said in contrast to “to reach a multiethnic America we must be committed to forming multiethnic churches”. https://t.co/2QCo5ijhma
@DerwinLGray@MattChandler74 @pulpitpenblog How does this in any way demonstrate that the only way to reach a multiethnic nation is a multiethnic “church” since Christ sent out 12 men who were all from@one ethnicity???? #Sheesh. The gospel draws Christ people from every ethnicity. Rev 7:9.
@andrewfooshay@MattChandler74@DerwinLGray @pulpitpenblog 1. Never said he wasn’t committed to the gospel, I said only the gospel saves. Having multiethnic “churches” won’t truly “reach” anyone. 2. It was the video telling me to repent of being white that done that.
@MattChandler74@DerwinLGray @pulpitpenblog Matt, can you demonstrate anywhere in Scripture that your original statement is biblical? Can you demonstrate that mentality in the ministry of the Apostles? Can you demonstrate that anything other than the gospel reaches all sinners regardless of ethnicity?
Consider the rain: each droplet decreed, designed, and directed by Almighty God. Not a single molecule of liquid is self-existent, or independent of His Hand. They go at His command, obeying His will, without question. How much more ought we who are made in His image?