Sr pastor - Crossbridge Family of Churches. Director - @citytocityna; President - @citytocitymiami. Husband to @bethassis. Dad to 4 girls. BJJ Black Belt.
The dunning - Krugger theory of knowledge explains why real pros are humble and amateurs are arrogant.
Seen this from martial arts, to relationships, to church planting, to theology.
The overconfident loud mouths are always sitting at the top of mount stupidity. Rest assure.
Its here! But first a summary of the main argument of the last two articles in my series on justice.
1) If you think talk of oppressive social systems or white advantage automatically makes you a Marxist, then you may be a secular individualist who reduces everything to...1/4
Christians and the freedom of conscience in politics. The Bible binds my conscience to care for the poor, but it does not tell me the best practical way to do it. Any particular strategy (high taxes and government services vs low taxes and private charity) may be good and wise...
I feel the Church may be going through an Ezra 3:12 moment👇🏽
“But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy”
I've never regretted (1) assuming the best about people, (2) overlooking as much as possible, (3) offering more encouragement than advice and criticism, (4) and remembering the log in my eye will always skew how I see my pain, disappointments, and other people.