David Kitani

justtryingtofollowJesus

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

@JohnPiper Piper quoted SCRIPTURE and a brief statement about empathy from experience of enslavement. and then people come after him in Christ's name. this kind of response is the letter of the law with none of the spirit.
His stance on immigration seems reasonable: https://t.co/O2UyfdY789

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

@StillOnItX5 @JohnPiper actually no. the word translated as "sojourner" in this BIBLE verse is the Hebrew word "gar", which according to Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament, was actually more of "a permanent resident, once a citizen of another land, who had moved into a new residence."

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

@esaumccaulley the past speaks prophetically to our present

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“And he cares for me! To be assured of this becomes the answer to the threat of violence-yea, to violence itself. To the degree to which a man knows this, he is unconquerable from within and without.” - Howard Thurman (Jesus and the Disinherited)

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

@cogscimom wow wow! and susumu kimura was involved!

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

@cogscimom Haha! So many levels.

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

@cogscimom @dsforeveryone Wow!

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

"Why do pastors so often treat congregations with the impatience and violence of developers building a shopping mall instead of the patient devotion of a farmer cultivating a field?" - Eugene Peterson

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

"There are a thousand ways of being religious without submitting to Christ’s lordship, and people are practiced in most of them." - Eugene Peterson

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

Prayer, intensity of spirit at attention before God, is at the heart of both writing and pastoring. - Eugene Peterson

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“How, with my existing abilities and opportunities, can I be of greatest service to other people, knowing what I do of God’s will and of human need?” - Tim Keller

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“a fish…is free only if it is restricted to water…Freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones…So the commandments of God…are a means of liberation…through them God calls us to be what he built us to be.” - T.Keller

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“But these quests were always a little suspect: was it really more of God they were after, or were they avoiding the God who was revealing himself to them?” - Eugene Peterson

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“…I will most certainly continue to flee the presence of the Lord, for that is the one place where I am sure to be exposed as a pretender.” - Eugene Peterson in Under the Unpredictable Plant

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“Confession and forgiveness are the concrete forms in which we sinful people love one another. Often I have the impression that priests and ministers are the least confessing people in Christian community.” - Henry Nouwen (In the Name of Jesus)

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“Therefore true ministry must be mutual. When the members of a community of faith cannot truly know and love their shepherd, shepherding quickly becomes a subtle way of exercising power over others and begins to show authoritarian and dictatorial traits.” - Henry Nouwen

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“This unconditional & unlimited love is what the Evangelist John calls God’s first love…The love that often leaves us doubtful, frustrated, angry, and resentful is the second love, that is to say, the affection, sympathy, encouragement, and support we receive from [others].” HN

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“Seeking a call that evades suffering is a decision neither to follow Jesus nor to live in the real world.” - Mark Labberton

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“Few things make us need the gospel more than the experience of the church.” - Mark Labberton in Called: the Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today

[David Kitani @davidkitani]

“Jesus called people to follow him, but to do it together. It is important to call people to belong to each other not only to Jesus.” - Kevin Blue