Pete Thompson

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[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

@RHB_Books I’d personally fund-raise for this.

[Carlo Cicero @_Carlo_Cicero_]

Baptists need the complete works of Isaac Backus @RHB_Books @Founders_Press. We have cash, you have printers.

[Toby Logsdon @TobyLogsdon]

Dear Truly Reformed crowd,
Let me make sure I have this right. If a Baptist gets Marrow theology right, they still can't be Reformed, but a Presbyterian who gets Marrow theology wrong is still truly Reformed. Is that accurate?

[Glenn Butner @glennbutner]

On the recent TGC blog which raised concerns about uncritical retrieval theology that treats Aquinas as a “patron saint” - there are historical reasons a retrieval project must engage Aquinas, even if, like me, you retrieve far more broadly.

A thread:

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“Baptism is not a sign of faith but to faith.”

-Derek Thomas

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

The godly women in the SBC who love God’s design of male-only pastors both in office and in function:

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

Totally. They also have the deep capacity for being delicious.

[Manoco @Moonlighhy]

True empathy begins the moment we realize that a cow is not a commodity, but an individual with a deep capacity for friendship.

[Brandon Smith @brandon_d_smith]

I’ve been playing with ChatGPT and Claude every once in awhile as I write, not for my own sake or to apply to my work, but to understand it better given its proliferation among students and others.

And I have to say.

It’s worse than you think.

Every story you hear about making up quotes and sources, not being able to adjudicate good from bad research, writing in a reductive and generic idiom, “apologizing” for doing shabby work instead of doing it right the first time, etc. is not a bug but a feature.

As I keep telling students, your attempts at using it even “for research” is actually making your work worse. And it’s very best, it’s a supercharged Google, which isn’t saying much. An AI-produced paper, even with the best intentions and prompts, is C-level at best when compared to my expectations.

If you sneak it by me, shame on you. And maybe shame on me a little too.

Of course, the deeper issue is it’s robbing you of creative discovery, hard-won knowledge, and the ability to articulate thoughts—all sorely needed skills in ministry.

It just ain’t worth it.

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

This is excellent.
https://t.co/7hfD4GKuRR

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

Says every unteachable guy ever.

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue”

— Russian Proverb

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

@IanDaKitchen @Protestia 💯 bro.

EO and RC are consistent attempts at undoing Romans 10:17.

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

@GalenBalinski @BrysonGray 💯

The instrumental *cause* of our justification isn’t even works. It’s faith. But even that faith is a passive receiving, accepting, and resting in Christ and his righteousness alone for justification. Justification is entirely works-less.

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

Co-sign. A complementarian who believes women can be pastors is like a married bachelor. It just doesn't exist.

[Daniel Scheiderer @1689Dogmatician]

If you argue that women can be pastors, you’re not a complementarian. Pretty simple really. Feel free to play word games, but also, stop calling yourself complementarian.

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

Right, and that's the issue. The SBC lacks a confessional basis for disfellowship, so it can "disfellowship for any reason." That's why we're seeing backlash from the egals. This whole controversy reveals the deeper issue of a lack of confessionalism/subscriptionism in the SBC.

[Mike Stone @PastorMikeStone]

🧵The SBC doesn’t need a codified reason to disfellowship a church. It can already do so for any reason.

Ex: In June 2018, the EC removed a church for discrimination, 3 years before an explicit amendment was added.

The 2021 amendment on discrimination created no new power.

[Dane Ortlund @daneortlund]

Ministers woo for Christ.

They open the riches, beauty, honor, all that is lovely in him.

One main end of our calling in ministry is to lay open and unfold the unsearchable riches of Christ, to dig up the mine, thereby to draw the affections of those that belong to God to Christ.

Sibbes

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

Aside from this being a vile and grotesque reading of the Gospels to justify a vile and grotesque practice...

I'm so glad God didn't ask for my consent before he gave me new life. I'd still be dead. I'd still be lost. Because up to that moment, I didn't consent. "But God..."

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Talarico claimed that the Bible justifies abortion because Archangel Gabriel asked the Virgin Mary for her "consent" before she conceived Jesus.

That would be true except he completely made that up.

Gabriel tells Mary it's God's will and she accepts.

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

@pj_schreiner @kdclaunch Fair enough. Looking forward to your quadriga book! Can’t wait to read it!

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

@pj_schreiner I'd love for you to take @kdclaunch on his offer to talk with you about the energies/essence distinction. You both are really charitable. It'd be a really fruitful discussion. Make it happen!

[Kenwood Institute @KenwoodInst]

https://t.co/16y9gnZQYc

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

I don’t think this is an unfair critique. And I’m a Law Amendment guy. The SBC could use a heavy dose of evaluating qualifications according to grace just as much as the qualification according to nature. Fair point.

[Winston Hottman @WinstonHottman]

What about disfellowshipping churches that affirm, appoint, or endorse unqualified men serving in the office or function of pastor? There are, after all, other New Testament qualifications for pastors. Why are those not grounds for separation? Until we start taking the character qualifications of our pastors just as seriously, forgive me for being more than a little skeptical about some of the motives driving the current controversy.

[Pete Thompson @PeteThompson9]

@GalenBalinski Amen bro. Tell me the old, old story of Jesus and his love.

[Galen Balinski @GalenBalinski]

I love to tell the story
of unseen things above,
of Jesus and His glory,
of Jesus and His love.
I love to tell the story
because I know it's true.
it satisfies my longings
as nothing else can do.

Refrain:
I love to tell the story!
'Twill be my theme in glory
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and His love.

2 I love to tell the story;
more wonderful it seems
than all the golden fancies
of all our golden dreams.
I love to tell the story;
it did so much for me,
and that is just the reason
I tell it now to thee. [Refrain]

3 I love to tell the story;
'tis pleasant to repeat
what seems, each time I tell it
more wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story;
for some have never heard
the message of salvation
from God's own holy Word. [Refrain]

4 I love to tell the story,
for those who know it best
seem hungering and thirsting
to hear it like the rest.
And when in scenes of glory
I sing the new, new song,
'twill be the old, old story
that I have loved so long.