✝️Jesus, worship leader, teacher, song writer 🙆♀️Empowering women 4ever ♥️Wife, Mama, Sister, Daughter 🙊 Trying to banish “I’m just a…” from every woman’s 👄
“Too many Christians are in denial. Most churches are scandal-free, they’ll say. Most pastors are men of integrity, they’ll argue. But how many bad apples must we pluck before we recognize that the orchard is diseased?” @DavidAFrench https://t.co/Amm5k2mmGI
For anyone who has never checked the context of the famous verse “Let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (Amos 5:24), it is not a plea or a prayer.
It is a judgment.
“I love you, I’m with you to the end, and you can do what you want, but if you’re still a Southern Baptist by summer you’ll be in an interfaith marriage.” - Maria Moore
If you still refuse to believe facts stacked Himalayan high before your eyes and insist the independent group hired to conduct the investigation is part of a (liberal!) human conspiracy or demonic attack, you’re not just deceived. You are part of the deception. If you can go on
@SBCExecComm Instead of asking for “continued prayers for wisdom”, you should be asking for FORGIVENESS. Wisdom came to you years ago and you ignored her. Now it’s time repent.
@ArtRainer And to help them understand what you mean by power, just use their language: “leadership.” It’s a love affair with “leadership.” Conferences. Pipelines. Book deals. Leadership became their god bc it was so hard to call it by its real name: power.
Jesus was King who came to reverse the order things. The moment we try to unreverse, the church of God becomes simply a constituency and a voting block. Then it’s game over.
We have Married people to the Bible, we have not married people to following Jesus. Deciding to follow Jesus means there’s no room for anyone to be choosing their side over one another. Choosing one another is at the epicenter-the soul and heart-of what following Jesus is: love