Erik Reed

Pastor. Entrepreneur. Thinking Christianly about faith, work, culture, politics, and leadership. @tjclive @dominion_chat @KnowingJesusMin @BullyPulpitPod

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When Eliab said "I know your heart," nothing in David's past justified that response. Sometimes people don't attack what you've done—they attack who you're becoming.

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Don't let criticism keep you from obedience. Don't let misunderstanding silence conviction. Don't wait for universal approval before taking action—because you'll never receive it.

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You don't have to sanitize your pain before bringing it to God. The imprecatory psalms are in the Bible because God knows that in a broken world, the cry for justice sometimes looks like a demand for judgment. He can handle your raw honesty.

[Josh Daws @JoshDaws]

Episode 3: Mary Sue Doesn't Want Kids

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When it comes to great leadership...boring and consistent will beat brilliant and charismatic over time.

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You can't control what people say about you. You can only control how faithfully you lead. Read that again.

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"Our iniquities you have set before you, and our secret sins in the light of your countenance." God sees it all. The aim of this truth isn't to shame you, but to strip you of the illusion that you can hide from Him.

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Contentment isn't found in a number in a bank account. It's found in a heart anchored to the Giver, not the gift.

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Interesting. I wonder why that is? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[America @america]

Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin says The SAVE America Act, which would mandate Voter ID and citizenship verification to vote, “would make it hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.”

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You can't lead faithfully and please everyone. Not even your own family. Not even the people you grew up with. Not even those who claim to know you best.

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Leadership isn't for those who need to be liked. It's for those who need to be faithful.

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Dads rule

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The kids wanted to prank their dad, and he did exactly what they wished for.

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"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands." Stop striving in your own strength. Seek His favor to establish what you do.

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We don’t get to customize our pain. The job loss, the diagnosis, the wayward child—they don't come with a heads-up. But we do get to choose our refuge.

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Your courage doesn't require their approval. Your calling doesn't require their permission. Your obedience doesn't require their understanding. Lead anyway.

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God is never unjust when He withholds judgment. And He is never unjust when He brings it. We don't always understand His timing, but we can rest in His character. The Judge of all the earth will always do right.

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Every time you make a promise to your team, your customers, or your congregation, you are generating hope. Handle that hope with fear and trembling.

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Stop living as if you are the center of the universe. You are a mist. Align your brief moments with the eternal purposes of the One who holds time itself.

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Reread what I wrote. I'm not minimizing the Great Commission or evangelism. I pastor a church I planted.

But the Great Commission involves obeying the Cultural Mandate.

We are not going to live as disembodied souls in an abstract place. We will live resurrected in a world made new.

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So good, and so true.

My experience has been that most evangelicals operate with a default Gnosticism that doesn't know what to do with the dominion mandate and elevates things like Bible study, personal quiet times, vocational ministry, missions, etc. over creating businesses, developing art, building generational wealth, pursuing political influence, etc.

It's not that the latter is more important than the former. It's that they shouldn't be separated and pitted against one another.

[Tyler C @tyler_austin55]

I had a conversation with an old acquaintance recently who believes that only evangelism really matters. After all, the world is not our home, so civil life is secondary. Building lasting things is not necessary, children are optional, having a legacy is suspect, etc. His view is that the dominion mandate has expired, and so the Great Commission is really our ultimate, only mandate.

He is married, but he and his wife do not want children. Instead, they fill their time with travelling and seeing the world. Why not? If the world is going to be destroyed anyway, and the Christian life is reduced to extracting souls from the world rather than discipling men to take up their duties within it? Why invest in households, institutions, and future generations?

This is a thinner Christianity than what the Scriptures portray. The point of being a citizen of heaven is not to despise earthly duties, but to be ambassadors of heaven here on earth. After all, it is still our Father’s world: “The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1).

In Jeremiah 29, God did not tell exiles in Babylon to sit around waiting for escape. He told them to build houses, plant gardens, take wives, have sons and daughters, and seek the peace of the city. The Great Commission does not cancel the dominion mandate, but rather, it restores men to God so that they can order their lives toward Christ. A disembodied Christianity is not the goal. Christ saves men with bodies, spouses, children, homes, churches, grandchildren, etc. And then he restores their nature so that they can order all of these aspects of their lives for his glory.

The Gospel does not make the dirt we till unimportant, and no faithful servant buries his tools because the Master is coming back.

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Reminder: she was a beautiful woman that bought into a destructive ideology.

Ideas have consequences.

We not only should grieve this kind of thing, we should labor to rescue others from buying into it.

[The Odyssey Movie @odysseymovie]

Elliot Page at The Odyssey World Premiere in London. Experience it only in cinemas July 17.