Josh Chen

Husband, Father, Storyteller.

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Fascinating comparison of Baby Boomer spending vs Millennial spending adjusted for inflation. https://t.co/4IwzYuMt4i

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@kkdumez “I sent evangelicalism into fight or flight”

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@SimonReye @Billieiswriting I wrote an article for outreach magazine that speaks to evangelism from a centered set framework that I think will be more impactful than the traditional bounded set: https://t.co/Uq20J293im

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@SimonReye @Billieiswriting The theory isn’t necessarily false. It helps give a framework for reimagining how to do ministry in a way that minimizes collateral damage.

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@SimonReye @Billieiswriting What is the purpose of having to distinguish two distinct groups?

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@SimonReye @Billieiswriting Why did the author pick a specific weed that looks just like wheat? While attempting to pick out tares, they may accidentally uproot wheat.

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@SimonReye @Billieiswriting *But Jesus…

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@SimonReye @Billieiswriting The practical implications for needing to know who’s in and who’s out is to bifurcate evangelism and discipleship. Big Jesus says “many will say to me Lord Lord..” and he responds “I never knew you.” The problem starts with us assuming most people in our churches are Christians..

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@SimonReye @Billieiswriting So we apply a discipleship strategy. But maybe we are assuring people of salvation when they are not. And vice versa, those who are seeming not in Christ, actually are as evidenced by many stories in the gospels.

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@SimonReye @Billieiswriting Bounded and centered set is from the perspective of humans, not God. Humans are terrible at defining what the boundary is, even when they try to base it on the Bible. The parable of the wheat and the tares is a great example.

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@LivingGodsTruth Toebah is also the word used in Jeremiah 44:4 which is clearly referring to sacrificing to other gods. Finding a word in two different contexts and inferring the meaning from one onto the other is not a great way to study the Bible.

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@kateshellnutt It’s there, the language just evolves.

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@BlackLabelAdvsr @Steampunkchem @KyleLlo75976623 @kevinmyoung Not even the SBC believes this is a primary issue. If you believe this is a salvific issue, that is a heretical view.

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@Sean_McDowell This would be a fascinating study. My guess is that fear was the dominate driver in the past, but we will need to make the difficult shift towards love to reach younger generations.

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@JeffVanderstelt Jesus’ invitation to Nicodemus to become born again was an invitation to deconstruct in order to reconstruct. He couldn’t just add what Jesus was teaching to what he already knew, he had to unlearn and start from the ground up, like a baby.

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@ekmike1 There’s not much context. It was a off handed comment I made that he disagreed with. I was just surprised he disagreed since Jesus went after the one.

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I had an interesting conversation about missiology. I made the point that from a missiological standpoint we ought to be going after the 1 and not the 99. They disagreed and said that we should be going after the 99. I'm genuinely curious what you all think and why.

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@howertonjosh I hear you, but with all due respect, I think there is a difference btwn a critique and saying “hey you guys sound a whole lot like Satan.” As an aside, I’ll admit that I sometimes gravitate towards drawing lines in the sand, and if I have, I apologize for doing so, I try not to.

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@howertonjosh I don’t know how helpful it is to oversimplify the beliefs of people outside your theological tradition in order to draw a line distinguishing your tribe from theirs.