Dave Rahn

Jesus. Grit. Joy. Essentialist. Multiplier. Grateful Grandpa.

[Dave Rahn @drrahnyfc]

JESUS IS LORD. The shortest, simplest, earliest Christian creed. An identifier that still costs some people their lives. And a peace-protecting, joy-juicing, faith-fortifying response we can choose no matter what we encounter in thought, word, deed or circumstance. #JESUSisLORD

[Dave Rahn @drrahnyfc]

I grew up mid urban. Alleys to bike in, fenced in public park to play in, a broken sewer pipe to explore. Race riots & hippy sit ins during my high school years. My near rural wife? Very different. Video makes sense to me - I wonder what others think.

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@HaroldFordJr @SpecialReport @BretBaier @kayleighmcenany @kilmeade Mostly Republican here and 72 years old. But I would vote for you for president over anyone I’ve seen on the political landscape. God bless. And thanks for your irenic spirit, honesty and wisdom-seeking humility.

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@SInow 4

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@Matt_Pinner 35

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@iman_560 4

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@elonmuskmel7 HOPE

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@SykesCharlie I’m an old school Republican who would be willing to flip Indiana blue if only there were ANYTHING on that side that’s appealing.

[Dave Rahn @drrahnyfc]

Hard to not see a conspiracy here.

On 11/22:
#9 ND beats Syracuse 70-7
#10 ALA beats E Illinois 56-0

ALA then moves to #9

Why?

On 11/29:
#9 ALA beats Auburn 27-20
#10 ND beats Stanford 49-20

No change in rankings

Why?

On 12/6
#9 ALA loses to GA 7-28

They’re still #9?

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@ohhanxiety 18

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@Milajoy Next September is 50. ❤️‍🔥😳

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They’re 9-3. I believe.

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@JoshuaBarzon 1C. I’m big and old; need an aisle seat with the option to listen if I want to interesting stuff.

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@mattvanswol Laugh together and love Jesus.

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@TheSports_Shift If they win 3 or more it’s OK for me to agree they are ahead of schedule under Coach Ben.

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@PTSportsFix Sweetness

[Plumbline Faith @PlumblineFaith]

Sure, institutional churches have great programs, services and staff. But have they produced mature disciples and a mature Body of Christ?

Isn’t this the nub of the matter?

No doubt, they can point to other measures of “success” – numbers, inspirational sermons, “decisions” made for Christ, feel good “worship” with great “worship” bands, impressive buildings, etc.

But despite it all, are they actually making mature disciples and functioning as the mature Body of Christ?

On those key issues, studies and surveys by the Barna Group and the Pew Foundation vividly show that the traditional church in the West has been a dismal failure.

Conversely, in many places outside the West, local communities of believers are actually succeeding at making disciples and functioning as the dynamic Body of Christ.

How?

By embracing a much simpler, relational, and participatory way of being the multi-gifted, multi-part, and multi-functional Body of Christ – through ministry one to another for the mutual building up of each other – just as the New Testament commands.

Why hasn’t the West generally done the same, causing it to fall behind?

Because the institutional church in the West has not been faithful to Biblical mandates but instead has organized itself around:

▪ One gifted man and his monopolizing, monologue “sermons” delivered each Sunday morning;

▪ During podium-controlled, staged meetings before rows upon rows of spectator “attendees;”

▪ With any other ministry likewise dominated by “professional” clergy;

▪ Organized into position-centric, institutional hierarchies;

▪ Requiring resource-sucking infrastructure, staff and buildings.

The tide is slowly turning, however, and the days of “Churchianity” in the West finally seem to be starting to fade.

Instead, God is birthing a renewed longing to actually be the church – the beautiful, multifaceted, multi-gifted, relational and participatory Body of Christ where we build each other up in the Lord through ministry one to another.

Often, believers meet simply – without staff, cost or overhead – in homes and other places where life and relationships naturally occur.

If it hasn’t happened with you yet, be open to the Lord burning out of you the old ways of thinking, based on post-Biblical human traditions and presumptions …

So you can be part of what He’s doing when it begins in your own hometown too.

Who knows? Maybe God is preparing you to also open your own life and home, like my wife and I have, to be a spark that helps make it happen in your own locale too.

[Dave Rahn @drrahnyfc]

When two wrongs breed life gets ugly.

[Dave Rahn @drrahnyfc]

@amooh001 Appreciative

[Dave Rahn @drrahnyfc]

To both Republicans & Democrats: you’ve been elected to govern, to make America work well for all of us. If you insist on making your re-election more important than anything else or making sure your offensive side of the ball looks better than their defensive side we all lose.

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@PlumblineFaith You’re 68; I’m 71 with 50+ years of investing in youth ministry. I am complicit in a $$ captive infrastructure that our Lord is mercifully but clearly beginning to dismantle as part of his Church revitalization. If the Lord leads us to connect, I will welcome it.