“We must oppose every form of alienation, liberate people from every kind of oppression, and denounce evil and injustice wherever they exist.”
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The Lausanne Covenant
@msgwrites@JulesDiner I’m pretty positive the funds are donated by paranoid people who spend a lot on fear mongering instead of mercy ministry while at the same time referring to those active in mercy ministry as socialist,Marxist,feminists,social justice warriors, and egalitarians. Typical.
Ideas and rhetoric matter. Tolerating speech that degrades the personhood of individuals has consequences. It's past time to stop acting like what we say, or tolerate others saying, is just politics, or partisan, or in any way excusable.
https://t.co/F5ebyNzfyX
With tears I ask you to join me in earnest prayer for @tomascol and his family. Tom and I may not see eye to eye on some things but he is my brother in Christ and I plead with the Lord to bless him with a full recovery. I have never doubted that he deeply loves Jesus.
The Queen publicly cancels the Prince's party, disavows his public statements and strips him of royal duties.
Meanwhile over in the SBC we're still trying to figure out if we can say, much less DO, something about predators and enablers in the pulpit. 🤦♀️
https://t.co/lOt7Zw3VPE
I'm persuaded that narcissism in many young men in particular is baptized as spiritual giftedness in a way that does a great disservice to them and ignores deep wells of shame and fragility lurking within.
#WhenNarcissismComesToChurch
We have built large and wealthy earthly kingdoms in the name of our God. But we have made His sanctuary a den of robbers, which simply means a safe place for predators. Headlines continue to expose esteemed pastors who have fed off the sheep AND been protected by the system.
Pastors, where are you? You who preach the requirements for pastors, where are you now? You who teach that if only women would submit and men lead, abuse would be solved, where are you? You who laughed at a female teacher being told "go home", where are you?
Where are you now?
Godliness is not evidenced by gifting or words alone but by spiritual maturity—a consistent demonstration in one’s character of Christlikeness. Some immature leaders in the Christian world have achieved power & status because of their gifts rather than because of their maturity.
“Frenemies of the Faith and Misogynistic Ministers” is offered as a biblical encouragement to my Christian sisters called by God, gifted by the Spirit, and empowered by Christ to proclaim Jesus to the nations. https://t.co/5SzZuljA7B #BethMoore#JohnMacArthur#ChurchToo#SBC2020
Here’s the beautiful thing about it & I mean this with absolute respect. You don’t have to let me serve you. That gets to be your choice. Whether or not I serve Jesus is not up to you. Whether I serve you certainly is. One way or the other, I esteem you as my sibling in Christ.
Mission demands more people, more money, more projects. Mission demands we protect it no matter what. We then fail to live under the governance of the Master who says, “Expose the deeds of darkness.”