Gavin Linderman

Husband because I am in love, friend because people are a gift, father because I am cherished, pastor because I enjoy God, and disciple because Jesus.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

After only 10 minutes on @Twitter

Wailing and gnashing of teeth…
Where the fire is never quenched…
The worm dies not…
Weeping….darkness….a bottomless pit….the lower parts of the Earth…

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

When is it that keeps you from saying no to others?

[John DelHousaye @jdelhousaye]

Mindfulness (kavanah) in the Judeo-Christian tradition is rooted in the Shema, the daily intention to love God and neighbor, the inevitable distraction (forgetting), and the willful returning over and over again—what Paul calls “pray without ceasing.”

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

We are only truly ourselves as far as we can be that self before others.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

We can have all the science necessary to do good but that science is helpless before a people who have given no thought to what is good and right.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@thegeorgewhite I mean for real how long since you had one?

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

I care less about gender roles and more about the role of gender.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@JohnnyKerrPhoto Forgive my absence here… at our best no.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

With each new generation the authority of the natural world increasingly becomes clay in the hands of our imagination to our own purposes and pleasures.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@jdelhousaye @AxiomChurch @micah_bentley The wind blows where it blows. Appreciate you deeply.

[John DelHousaye @jdelhousaye]

I’m sharing some of my Jesus paintings with @AxiomChurch for their liturgy in July/August. Pastors @gavalanched and @micah_bentley are new soul friends.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

It would seem that only the wise and the foolish know what they are saying.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@____arnold That too.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

That moment when those around you know more about the enneagram than the scriptures.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@thegeorgewhite October..you have time

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

The church lacks an epistemology of the Holy Spirit.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

Don’t fall for thinking that not picking a side is privilege. Building bridges and setting tables by definition stands with both and says that neither justice nor liberation are enough by themselves. Only restoration will be enough, the lion and the lamb reconciled.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@____arnold Haha...says the former evangelical. :)

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

Noble causes become cultural pathogens when those causes become the central characteristics of our collective identity.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@AndyStanley Amen. I think I would add “doing and becoming” to the list as well. Past the stages of heads, hands and hearts is the relational...the true treasure in the field.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@____arnold It is my heart for the noble cause itself that I make this first statement. EX: As I said, “Christians/evangelicals are more known for what they are against than what they are for.” And yet this is the very characteristic that defines ex-vangelicals like myself.

[Gavin Linderman @gavalanched]

@____arnold Amen! I’m all for passion :) Nothing wrong with that. The trouble comes when our cause becomes our brand. As soon as that happens we are more known for what we are against than what we are for and in doing so we set the trap that ends up catching our leg instead.