Helpful theological maxim.
What the Son is by nature, the Christian is by grace.
A chunk of the doctrinal problems within Nigerian Christian fades away if people understood this.
One of the tragedies of Nigerian Neo Pentecostalism is that young men carry heavy burdens without ministerial oversight.
It is a big problem when an untrained 21 year old is able to “start a church” and stumble his way through.
He will hurt sheep and he will make serious…
@busyminds_ Finally, a Christological perspective.
We just need to ask, "when did the human nature inseparably unite with the divine nature?"
Simple answer--Conception. Not birth. Conception. (Luke 1:31,35, Isaiah 7:14)
A society that says some children are better off not existing is not becoming more compassionate.
This is dehumanisation disguised as being compassionate.
@thejohnbabalola It's a painful thing to be told in the heat of zeal that your zeal may be misdirected as it pertains to knowledge. It's not an easy thing, but the tweets proving these things are still up till now.
@thejohnbabalola He has placed himself in a position of doctrinal authority while making mistakes that are, by and large, costly. Teachers will get double strokes and harsher judgment. It feels like a rude awakening, but it's important he takes time to reflect on it.
Google doesn't understand how much stress they're putting me through by changing the design of these icons. I don search for sheets for 7 mins before i realise the tab was open but just a gradient now.
bring the old design back mahn
Here to say, if the reason you’re voting is that you’re hoping for a leader who will be empathetic to your sufferings; that’s a very good reason to vote.
Worship is always incomplete without sacraments. It's why those who deny the ordained sacraments create their own, but being man-made, these sacraments lack the truly transformative and sustaining power that the ordained do. They are, in some ways, placebos.
The other day, we celebrated a credit rating upgrade by the international credit agency, S&P. The events over the past few days just explains how the government (across all arms and tiers) make one step forward and two steps backwards.
A country does not become a $1 trillion economy simply because oil prices rise or because GDP numbers look bigger on paper.
A trillion-dollar economy is built when millions of people can safely learn, work, move, invest, build companies, transport goods, and plan for the future with confidence.
Industrial economies are built on efficient movement:
of people
of goods
of raw materials
of labour
of capital
Insecurity disrupts all of them.