I asked someone in PCA leadership why abortion was never preached from the pulpit.They said “we would just be preaching to the choir”They assumed people in the pews agreed with the Bible and didn’t see the need to disciple.The world has been happy to step in and disciple instead
@luinalaska My mom was the Scrabble queen. Always won. One time my dad was about to win and she flipped the board over. Tiles went everywhere. She died when I was 11, undefeated Scrabble champion.
The saddest symptom about so many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight in their Christianity...anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference.
- J.C. Ryle
@allie__voss@KayLynGians Can we add dance to this, too? Youth sports is definitely an issue, but it seems like the dance families get a pass. Dance also includes many weekends away at competitions and they will never dance professionally…
A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.
Instead of saying “The Church shouldn’t speak about politics!”, say “I want the Church to conform to my preferences.”
Because nobody complains when the Church agrees with them.
@thisisfoster Honest question…why would a PCA church plant a non-PCA church? Follow-up…What kind of church is the plant? Thank you for your work. I pray it will bring good fruit to the PCA
Whenever I hear “transcend the culture war,” I want to ask: what do you think the culture war is?? It already *is* the transcendent war. It’s not a war of violence or bloodshed, it’s a transcendent war for ideas, ideologies, truth, goodness, and beauty. It’s a spiritual battle waged w temporal results. It’s Ephesians 6 lived out.
I have so little tolerance for Christian leaders and laymen who pretend they’re more spiritual because they don’t care if their country is collapsing, they only care about evangelization.
Pro tip: If your country is collapsing, it’s safe to say that your evangelization efforts are FAILING pretty spectacularly, so maybe realize that you can and should care about both things.