David Frank

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[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

Spirit Airlines collapsed at 3AM on May 2nd. I just pledged to help build Spirit 2.0 — a people-owned airline. One member, one vote. Join us.
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[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

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[Eli McGowan @elimcgowan]

Venezuelan PCA Pastor Eduardo Martorano of Iglesia La Vid in Laredo, Texas and a graduate of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary has had his legal status revoked. He and his wife are now headed to Italy where her family resides, with almost no notice.

See the link below for the GoFundMe.

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@christopheryuan Charitably speaking, it seems like you are speaking a theological language, while others are trying to speak an existential language. It's like a scientist critiquing someone for saying "it's freezing out" because it's not technically below the 32 degrees. It's kinda impolite.

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

Vocal octet with my grandma from back in the vinyl days
https://t.co/u66TbCRg8a
(@matthewthiessen, maybe a relative of yours in there too?)

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Albuquerque is now the biggest city in the country to make public transit free, permanently.

Turns out it doesn’t just save people money, it saves the city money.

We talked to residents, and they love it. Some save on gas, some don’t have to walk to work, and everybody wins.

[@MCEA1974 @MCEA1974]

Press Release: Smith Foundry lacks essential pollution controls on furnace.

"This is exactly what we have been saying for years – the toxic pollution from the foundry is poisoning our community."

READ: https://t.co/At8f9dKhSs

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

BREAKING: VICTORY FOR CLIMATE IN THE NORWEGIAN COURT! 🌟

@GreenpeaceNorge and @NaturogUngdom sued the Norwegian state for issuing illegal permits to three oil projects.

The court court agreed on all counts and production must now stop!

#ClimateJustice #Norway

[Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels]

never host alone

the more responsibility you have, the more urgent it is to share it. abuse & corruption stem from excessive power disparity. community burnout stems from too much weight on too few shoulders

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@jaredhmoore @PrestonSprinkle @crutweets "There are six things which the LORD hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him...
A false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among brothers."
-Prov. 6:16,19

Rosaria avoids one abomination, but then commits another.

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@jaredhmoore @PrestonSprinkle @crutweets Ughh.... Rosaria. Heresy?? When do we get to use that word?
Jared, do you repent of (and ask for forgiveness for) every temptation you experience?
The more Christians hammer on this community, the harder you are making it for people to just try to be honest about their temptation

[Derek Rishmawy @DZRishmawy]

When the pundits catch up to what every youth pastor has known for years

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

A 1977 interview with 108 year old Mrs Florence Pannel who was born in 1868. She shares her memories and speaks about life for women in Victorian times. Born before the aeroplane and 101 when man landed on the moon. Her accent is remarkable.

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

I love the emphasis on creating conversation, and even friendship, across the ideological divides so that we can actually learn (and often find out how much we have in common). We got to stop culture war and cancel culture.

[Julia Malott @AlottaMalotta]

"When we decline conversation with those we might currently disagree with, we condemn ourselves to forever disagree."

Leading into tomorrow's protests, some have instructed protesters not to engage in conversation with those on the 'other side'.

If anyone believes that these identity politic divides somehow resolve themselves by forcing the 'other side' to accept your position... well... world history has already shown us how well that works out.

We gain traction in this division only by first humanizing those we disagree with. By truly engaging with and understanding both their needs and their fears. Once we've got that down, we can address both our own concerns AND theirs more easily than we may have thought.

If you're trans and you don't think anything gender critical people say has merit, then I have a question for you: Have you ever really talked to a gender critical individual? Not yelled at them, but sat down over a cup coffee to understand their fears? If you've done that... great! Keep going... and 6 or 12 months later you'll have talked to enough people to REALLY understand the root of where they are coming from.

And on the other side... if you have concerns about schools, curriculum, childhood transition, pronounce, prisons, sports, washrooms... If you have these concerns, have you taken the time to really get into both the headspace and heart-space of a transgender person? Not to mock them on Twitter, but to engage in good old-fashion community?

I've spent the last two years having thousands of conversations with the individuals on both ends of this identity politic divide. And I've never been more confident that a workable solution exists. But to get there.... we need to talk. All of us.

Tomorrow, I hope you consider extending goodwill to those on the other side of the protest. That will make a much bigger difference than yelling into the abyss about how wrong they are. Maybe they are wrong... but by showing the worst of ourselves to others we only strengthen their resolve that our position is inimical.

[Jeremiah @OnAncientPaths]

“the Church is not a doctrine, not a system, and not an institution. The Church is a living organism, an organism of truth or love, or more precisely: *truth and love as an organism*.” Yurt Samarin

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@ScholarPriest An incredible thread! Yet, here I would say Jesus has the same thing to say to us as he does to any heterosexually or otherwise oriented person: surrender your bodies to me, for I've redeemed you for myself by my own blood.

And I think @EdenInvitation has modeled this amazingly.

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@thomaesplendor @JeremyMcLellan, can you elaborate on how this does or doesn't relate to Proverbs 30:9?
"lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God."

[Taylor Patrick O'Neill @thomaesplendor]

Another way of putting this is that there is an ordering of goods to human beings and there is not an ordering of humans to unlimited acquisition of goods.

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@nickmobrien but of your two options I would prefer the latter! :)

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@nickmobrien I'm a little confused by this thread, since this all totally jives with our "chief end" being to glorify God! Good finish though!

Obedience & good works are the substance of worship, and our cruciform love fulfills the OT sacrificial worship pattern (cf Rom. 12:12), eh?

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@nickmobrien vs "we're created to glorify God as incarnate image bearers, both to will and to work in Christ for his good pleasure through our lives (which includes our economic practices and systems!)"

It "must" include good works because we are living imago dei, not disembodied worshipers.

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@NaturalTheologn @NancyRPearcey @EspinoTj @SideBeeAshley @urbanizedbeach But, as @NaturalTheologn said, is it possible for Trans to denote the actual lived experience of gender nonconforming whilst valuing the embodied sex? Said another way, could it denote Transgressing gender stereotypes, not Transitioning genders?

[David Frank @FrankDisciple]

@NaturalTheologn @NancyRPearcey @EspinoTj @SideBeeAshley @urbanizedbeach I admit that Trans is a difficult one, but not because of ideologic connotations. Rather, it seems to denote an action to transition something, whereas gay denotes same-sex attracted (and earlier, happy), and queer denotes different sexuality (previously, just odd).