@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
@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."
“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)
"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
“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
“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
“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
“…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
“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)
“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
“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
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