In May, Georgia legislators passed the "Clergy Sexual Abuse Bill," which adds religious leaders to a list of authority figures, such as teachers and coaches, accountable for sexual misconduct. The bill acknowledges the unique position of power that clergy hold and how it can be used to abuse those under them.
Read more about the new legislation: https://t.co/O5uZYrZPy2
If I may? The confusion comes in when GOD calls us to ministry and the boys playing religion tell us GOD isn’t allowed to do what we know He did.
Since we’re not allowed to play the boys game of religion (& are told that GOD is the one who made the mistake) GOD is made to look like an inconsistent jerk. Rather than deal with the all the clutter & confusion, we just lose our faith in the whole hot mess.
After a few decades, Jesus calls us back to Himself. We come back wiser to the games of religious boys. We don’t need the Christian Temple System any more. We already have our King Jesus living inside of us and are therefore more powerful than all the boys combined.
What isn’t of Him will be tested and only the gold & silver will remain. ✌️
Brian has a pup. The fell has not seen one in a while, and the fell has opinions, and so does the pup, and almost none of them are correct yet.
His name is Moss. He is a Border Collie, fourteen weeks old, black and white and entirely convinced, and he has arrived on a Cumbrian hill to learn the oldest job a dog has in this country, which is to move sheep without harming a hair on them, using nothing but position, patience, and the strange ancient power that a collie carries in its eyes.
Because that is the thing about a collie, the intricacy that makes the breed what it is. A collie does not herd by chasing or biting. It herds by "the eye," a fixed, crouching, predatory stare inherited straight from the wolf, the look that says to a sheep "I am a hunter and you will move," delivered by a dog that has been bred for a century and a half to feel the entire predatory sequence right up to the final pounce and then stop, and hold, and never complete it. A working sheepdog is a wolf that has been taught to do everything except the last thing. The control is the whole art.
Moss has the eye. He does not yet have the control. He has, this week, "gathered" a watering can, a wheelbarrow, three hens belonging to the neighbour, and Brian's wife's washing, dropping into the crouch and giving each of them the full ancestral stare before attempting to move it somewhere it did not wish to go.
Brian is not worried. Brian has done this before, more times than he will say, and he knows that the instinct arriving wrong and early is exactly how it is meant to arrive, and that the job now is years of patient shaping, the pup working beside an older dog and an older man until the wolf in him learns the one rule that makes him useful instead of dangerous: everything except the last thing.
Moss gave Doris the eye on Tuesday.
Doris, who has been stared at by better, carried on grazing.
Moss sat down, confused. The first lesson on the fell, delivered free, by a ewe: the look only works on something that believes it. He has a great deal to learn. He is exactly where he should be.
@ChristaBrown777 King Jesus calls you Daughter, Beloved, Friend, Ambassador, Bride, Witness, Representative, Leader, Minister, Teacher, Teammate, and Smarty Pants. ✌️
Team Jesus can’t give you anything, but our Team Leader is irresistible and has already proven He would die for you to keep you safe.
If you want Him, you can invite Him into your heart and ask Him to make Himself comfy. You would be lucky to have the Creator of the Universe be your Mentor. ✌️
I’m not going to delete YouVersion. I appreciate the exposure of a bad translations, but there is a worse one:
Did you know that KJV implied that Paul had condemned every gay man to hell by using a metaphor rather than accurately translating Paul’s words?
Then, the NKJV dumped the metaphor and openly mistranslated Paul’s words to condemn every gay man to hell?
I can’t imagine the number of suicides they will be held accountable for. They have sown such confusion, discord, and hate of our King Jesus that the damage they have caused is immeasurable. May GOD have mercy on their souls.
Start at the 1:54:00 mark to learn the details…
https://t.co/Ahd5m7k7q0
Bye bye YouVersion.
People generally expect you to only host decent and safe Bible translations. At least that’s what I expect.
I’d recommend using caution if you still use the YouVersion Bible app.
Opened this app to read updates on the annual meeting. Immediately saw pastors tweeting pictures of another pastor’s wife who made a motion (in support of pastors’ wives) from a mic. They ridiculed her appearance and mocked her openly. “Male leadership” with the maturity of a 7th grade boy.
Opened this app to read updates on the annual meeting. Immediately saw pastors tweeting pictures of another pastor’s wife who made a motion (in support of pastors’ wives) from a mic. They ridiculed her appearance and mocked her openly. “Male leadership” with the maturity of a 7th grade boy.
@JoanBandy Yeah! You are on your way to finding King Jesus and leaving the boys playing their religious games!
Ask our King Jesus to continue teaching you and become real to you!
He’s so much better than religion! ✌️
When the men all wanted to stone the adulteress, she was the only one being held accountable for a two-person sin.
Do we think our men display enough maturity to navigate this power & authority? Nah. ✌️
Pro-life men keep asking why pro-life women aren't in favor of criminalizing moms who get abortions. Here's why:
We don't want to have to go in for questioning every time we suffer a natural miscarriage.
I think Mike is talking about ‘The Word’ Jesus which is a created book, rather than our Living King Jesus…
(King Jesus = The Word) > (The Bible = an inspired (yet created) book our King Jesus uses)
What I hear Erick saying is that it’s our faith that saves in man’s consensus of what the Bible means which (lucky for Erick) he already knows!
Faith in Jesus doing the saving? Nah!
At some point (determined by Erick & his buddies) we cross an invisible line of agreement with their Biblical opinions and suddenly we’re saved! So Erick & his buddies are our saviors, not Jesus!
Lucky us. ✌️
Yeah actually to be a Christian, one must accept the Trinity. it is Christianity 101. And I appreciate there are lots of people out there who disagree, but they are, in fact, wrong. They can complain all they want, but the Trinity is a basic Christian belief.
Obey Scriptures? No. The SBC is obeying their groups’ self-serving, Biblical opinions which are not inspired or inerrant like they want to fool us into thinking.
See, following a Biblical Salad Buffet is different than following a Living King Jesus.
King Jesus’ Prime Directives:
1. Love GOD with all your heart, mind, soul, & strength.
2. Love others by treating them like you would want to be treated.
Jesus told us these two things were the reason GOD gave us the whole Old Testament. Any Biblical nonsense we come up with that is contrary to GOD’s purposes for Scripture is on us.
Subjugating women & making them worship our male peacocks 🦚 and their Biblical opinions instead of our King Jesus means we have officially missed GOD’S point for giving us Scriptures. ✌️
I pray it passes and I pray we remember all the work this good man did and all the slander he endured in order to help the SBC obey Scripture.
Mike Law won't be on the platform. He's not a famous name in the SBC. But he is a very, very good man and a faithful shepherd indeed.
King Jesus tore down the Temple in 70 AD. We resurrected it from the debris pile and created a Christian Temple System.
In Exodus 19 & 20, every Israelite (male, female, children) was invited up Mount Sinai to come into a personal relationship with GOD. The invitation was to make each one of them (male, female, children) a priest to the other nations. Instead, they refused and demanded a Temple System like they enjoyed in Egypt with a priest standing between themselves and the gods to tell them what to do.
GOD gave them what they demanded and suddenly there’s only one tribe of Levi being priests to the other tribes and the other nations were left to fend for themselves except reluctantly like Jonah.
When Jesus came, we were again offered to come into a personal relationship with GOD. Many of us have refused and cling to the Egyptian’s Temple System that the Israelites demanded that GOD give them. ✌️
“But none of you should be called a teacher. You have only one Teacher, and all of you are like brothers and sisters. Don't call anyone on Earth your father. All of you have the same Father in Heaven. None of you should be called the leader. The Messiah is your only Leader.”
- Jesus in Matthew 23:8-10 CEV
How did Christianity get to the point where I'm expected to "tithe" or "give" my share to support a vast theater complex that sits empty 98% of the time, staffed by a team of professionals who do who-knows-what and is led by one professional who does who-knows-what except for a half hour speech on Sunday morning, which is the point of the entire enterprise, and I'm supposed to feel weird if I even think that any of these professionals should actually care on a personal level whether I live or die?
How's that for a run-on sentence?