Brian Roden

IT manager at Leisure Arts, MA in Theological Studies at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary 2017

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@NickQuient But brothers, we are not professionals.

Or so I heard.

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@philvischer @SkyeJethani @HolyPost_Media
For an alternative to “American”, I propose “United Statesian” (essentially Anglicizing the word Spanish speakers use for us, “estadounidense”).

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@SkyeJethani @HolyPost_Media
The idea of the Google mosquitos (which are male) being used to implant microchips in people fails due to one simple fact: only the females bite people.

[Nate Pyle @NatePyle79]

If getting a meeting with your “pastor” is a “once in a lifetime” opportunity, you don’t have a pastor.

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

Christian brothers and sisters, stop tolerating wicked speech and behavior from your favorite influencer.

"But we NEED him to help us WIN"

This is worldly thinking.

"Do not be misled. Bad company corrupts good character." - 1 Cor. 15:33

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Those in the SBC who think I no longer should have anything to say about the SBC profoundly underestimate the power of love. I’d served southern Baptist women for 40 years by the time I left. And when I left, I left directly on their behalf because it became disturbingly clear to me that the SBC as an entity was more interested in protecting shepherds than the sheep entrusted to their care. When protecting the pulpit from women becomes a far greater priority than protecting women (& children) from an abusive pulpit, something is wrong. Which has been the greater problem: women trying to become your senior pastors or pastors misusing or abusing women?

My biggest concern is that what happened with the CRT witch-hunt will happen now in regard to women. The overreach resulted in numerous pastors, teachers and professors dropping the immensely important biblical teachings against racism rather than risk being accused of CRT. I heard from pastors at that time who preached against racism and already had emails Monday morning from people in their congregation accusing them of CRT. Because the difference wasn’t clarified, they lumped all of it into the one category. The aim became: shut every mouth to shut some mouths.

I pled for SBC seminary presidents and leaders to please clarify to pastors and teachers and, thereby, to congregations & students what qualified as CRT and what indeed was the proper and deeply rooted and needed biblical approach to anti-gospel racism.

Crickets.

I see the same potential here. I have never once fought for SBC women to take over church pulpits. I have esteemed and supported the role of male senior pastors. My own pastors would tell you that. If you think I was in the SBC trying to lead a revolution against men, you are clearly not familiar with my materials. What I believed then and believe now is that God has called both men and women to serve their churches and communities and proclaim the gospel. He has poured out his Holy Spirit on men AND on women, calling them to broadcast the good news.

You have beaten the drum loudly about what women in SBC churches cannot do. So, what CAN they do? Clarity here is essential. What is a woman to do who has been gifted BY GOD to teach the Bible, especially if her church has moved to the community group model and there is no Sunday school to teach?

Here is what I see on the horizon. If you leave these matters involving women so vague that it becomes about pastoral roles/actions rather than the title of pastor, it will shift to the subjective rather than objective. I wish I was naïve enough to think that wasn’t the point to some of these leaders but, sadly, I’m not.

What if that senior pastor doesn’t allow a woman on the prayer team to pray over people at the end of the service because he deems she is acting pastorally? What if the pastor sees that a woman’s Sunday school class of WOMEN is getting, in his estimation, a little too big? Can he just decide she acting pastorally and remove her from the role? Can she counsel people with her God-given wisdom and knowledge or would she be acting pastorally? The examples could go on and on. And, of course, I realize many would not use their positions to disesteem women but surely you and I both know countless others would. God only knows how many unqualified, unloving, mean-spirited men are in pastoral positions but the obsession remains the women.

I have no desire to see SBC women leave the denomination. I loved and flourished in that denomination. I want them to be able to flourish in their spiritual gifts. I want them to be esteemed in their serving inside and outside their homes. I want them to be able to serve Jesus and proclaim his glorious gospel.

I know I’m going to get hit here. That’s fine. But you should know I will fight for them to the death. Because I love them. And, yes, whether they love me or not.

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

I don't think "just support the less bad candidate" is simple for public figures with big platforms.

Individuals can support "less bad" candidates by voting for them while loudly decrying their flaws.

But in a two-party system, if a public figure loudly decries the flaws 1/

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@William_Gouge_X @megbasham Even Mohler (in his 2005 presidential address to the Evangelical Theological Society) called it a second tier issue. You can read the address on his web site.

[Rev. Nick Quient @NickQuient]

Egalitarians do not compromise God’s word on women pastors. We need better from SBC leaders on this point. This is piety signaling. Nothing more.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

Conservative evangelical (fundamentalist) pastor Loran Livingston, (Central Church, Charlotte, NC) calls Paula White a “heretic, blaspheming, Jezebel” noting that President Trump made the wrong choice for his faith advisor.

[Kaeley Triller @KaeleyT]

If a woman speaks to a crowd of pastors, is it evidence of her teaching men?

Or is it only “teaching” if she uses Scripture?

Or is it only wrong if she explains Scripture, and in that case, does it suddenly become “preaching” regardless of the setting?

Or is it only preaching if there’s a pulpit involved? A Sunday morning service? A title?

Meanwhile, the same movement insisting women must never “teach men” somehow has no issue platforming women like Megan Basham to address rooms full of male pastors when it serves their cultural or political priorities.

So apparently a woman can instruct, influence, warn, persuade, and shape the thinking of men… as long as everybody agrees not to call it “teaching.”

She can serve, sweat, pray, and deliver the same exact message about Jesus as any man she knows- as long as we don’t call her a pastor.

If this doesn’t feel like God’s heart, I suspect it’s because we all pretty much know it’s not.

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@megbasham https://t.co/uf3xpVXlVW

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@HolyPost_Media What happened to today’s episode on YouTube? I was going to share a quote from Skye and Mark with a timestamped link. It was there a couple hours ago.

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

Miller is counting on the average American’s ignorance of the immigration and naturalization process. He says that once the refugees are naturalized, they have the same vote as U.S. citizens.

That’s because naturalization is the process that makes them U.S. citizens.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

Obama and Biden flew around 120,00 refugees by airplane from the Congo and resettled them across the United States as part of the US Refugee Admissions Program created by President Jimmy Carter.

In 1980, Jimmy Carter signed a law to provide refugees an expedited path to US citizenship and the following benefits:
—Voting. Refugees, once naturalized, have the same vote as all US citizens
—Sitting on juries. Refugees, once naturalized, can judge Americans guilty or not guilty.
—Serving as judges. Refugees, once naturalized, can become the final authority where you live on the meaning and application of the United States Constitution
—Serving as police officers. Mayors can recruit those admitted as refugees to serve as police officers with the power to arrest Americans.
—Free medical care
—Free housing
—Free food
—Free education
—Preferences in hiring and university admissions
—Chain migration for their extended families

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@SkyeJethani @drewdyck
Too late

https://t.co/EaGVoRVMFL

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@HolyPost_Media Where is the nearest egg drop?

The soup bar at the local Chinese buffet.

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

@SkyeJethani @KaitlynSchiess I mention your discussion of Ezra Klein’s interview of James Talarico in this article

https://t.co/lTrNNUFKbQ

[Fernando Ortega @Ferndiggity]

This is how a president speaks.

[Trevin Wax @TrevinWax]

This is terrific news for Scotland. The fight continues, but thankful for this outcome. https://t.co/YX4zBBRUft

[Brian Roden @BrianRoden]

I even try to use proper grammar and structure in speaking to people. Maybe that comes from being bilingual and having to think about grammar and word order all the time when switching languages.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Last night, after she’d gone to bed, my 16 y/o daughter receives a text from a friend. (We keep electronics in our room at night). I know my daughter isn’t gonna see it for a while and I know the answer to the girl’s dance-class-related question. So I just pick up the phone and answer it really quick as if I’m my daughter and leave it at that.

Tonight, I see her giggling over her phone. I ask what’s up. Apparently, the other girl’s mother had just wanted to get an answer to the question really quick, so she picked up HER daughter’s phone and texted mine as if she were her daughter. (basically both of us were too lazy to go through the rigmarole of explaining, “hi, this is Mrs. So-and-so, and here’s why I’m texting you on your friend’s phone…”

But the funny part was how the two girls figured this out. Because the first one was so appalled at seeing her mother‘s perfectly punctuated and capitalized sentences, that she felt she needed to come clean that it was her mom lest my daughter think she is that conscientious.

And my daughter, likewise, didn’t want her friend to think that SHE uses correct grammar when texting either.

So what I learned today is that it is apparently humiliating to be caught correctly formulating sentences via text.