“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,” -
Matthew 5:43-44
@johnddavidson Fear mongering.
Any properly catechized adult from any era of Christendom would have to grasp what a light bulb is and understand modern English before believing this was a demon or not.
I’m not sure Christians realize how fragile and controlling they make Christianity look when they act as though they need a president, a political party, a Supreme Court, and a nation to protect, preserve, and enforce Christianity.
@jerrydorris Fair — 'hating each other' was too broad, some of this is real critique.
I'll be clear for you too: disliking his style or choice of words doesn't negate the man or the shepherd or the message given to him. That's soft.
@samuel_costner Any Biblical criticisms?
No?
Then this post is just empty gong clanging and “virtue” signaling against a pastor of a different church for how they run their financial set up.
I have yet to hear any Biblical criticisms on The Village church, only "I don't like his hands and the way he talks".
Chandler isn't your pastor, cool. Is it really the Spirit leading you to rebuke a brother, or something else?
The online Church continues biting its own neck.
There are so many deeper things that should be addressed here, but one of the things that really stood out to me is how extremely weird megachurch celebrity culture is.
Seriously, just talk like a normal person.
@howertonjosh “Deeper than ‘welcome the stranger’” is a strange thing for a pastor to ask of other pastors. Disciples are told to be doers of the word, not to think our way past the parts we find inconvenient.
Sadie Robertson Huff talks with John Crist. She addresses why she preaches. She talks about what 1 Timothy 2:12 says, but then defends her position that she’s is called to preach.
Sadie says she’s going to preach when the Lord leads her. But the Lord doesn’t lead her to go against what the Scriptures teach on women speaking or preaching to a gathered body of believers in a church.
@AbbyJohnson Easy to demonize a system broadly painting with “mass-produces”
The real blind spot is looking parents in the eye and telling them they can’t have biological kids because of politics dressed up like Jesus Christ.
IVF isn’t perfect, but it’s not evil either.
@jayplemons “Makers vs takers” is an old false binary that rigs the definitions—critics become “parasites”—then quietly equates market value with virtue. And the “choose your side” close gives it away: a recruitment pitch from the man it crowns.
@DNIGabbard Two different claims here: (1) Fauci improperly shaped intel assessments and lied to Congress, and (2) COVID came from a lab. The documents speak to the first. The second is still unproven either way — discrediting one argument for natural origin isn't proof of a leak.
@nickmmark Everyone's grading Midjourney's scanner against MRI and CT. Wrong test. It's not purely a diagnostic device—it's a data engine. One MRI is sharper; a thousand cheap scans track how your body changes over time.
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx