Jonathan Robbins

Husband, Dad, Lead Pastor of @TheSummitNC. Cancer survivor. Outside kind of guy. Instagram @jonathanlrobbins

[Protestia @Protestia]

Andy Stanley explains: "(God) doesn't expect us to explain or explain away his Old Testament behavior. Because in the Old Testament we find God playing by the rules of the kingdoms of this world"

[Preston Sprinkle @PrestonSprinkle]

I co-sign this voter’s guide by @BrianZahnd 👇🏼

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

In my role as a pastor, I’m not trying to get everyone to agree on everything so much as I’m attempting to create environments where our disagreements don’t automatically become cause for disunity.

[Preston Sprinkle @PrestonSprinkle]

An identify of the cross is fundamentally at odds with an identity of empire.

[Jonathan Robbins @RobbinsJonathan]

@AngieWardonline @laineywilson @CountryMusic Congratulations!!!

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

“It’s hard to convince people that a God they can’t see loves them when a church they can see doesn’t seem to like them.”

- John Alan Turner

[David Cassidy @DPCassidyTKC]

As Alexander the Great lay dying at age 33, he was asked to whom he would leave his kingdom. "To the strongest," he replied.

Those words unleashed two centuries of brutal warfare across the world.

When another young man prepared to die on a Greek-imported instrument of execution called 'the cross,' he answered such questions by saying, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If it were...my servants would fight."

By his voluntary death, Christ unleashed a movement of faith, hope, and love, of light and mercy, into a world darkened by death and despair. He fought for us rather than sending us to fight for him.

While the Christian life is a fight on many levels, it is not a fight to bring the kingdom through human power, a challenge that would summon the strong. No, the crucified King who was never called 'Great' has made the humility of a child, the lowliness of service, the vulnerability of weakness and the shame of the foolish, the characteristics of his peaceful kingdom's faithful advance.

This kingdom will not be given to the strong who fight but the humble who cry out for mercy.

Yes, there have been 'Greats' - Alexander, Catherine, Peter... but you will search in vain for any reference anywhere to 'Jesus the Great', and the reason this is so is evident: he defined kingdom and greatness in terms utterly upside-down from the way a merely human ruler would.

So the next time you meet a believer angrily fighting someone, remember, Jesus is NOT Great, but he IS LORD. He will do the fighting. "And of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end" (Isaiah 9). Tell them to put their sword away and then pray for the healing of the people their reckless defense of Jesus has wounded.

[Jonathan Robbins @RobbinsJonathan]

Amen!

[Dr. Gavin Adams @gavin_adams]

We should start judging Jesus like some are doing to @AndyStanley, only by his sound bites? “He said eat his flesh! He’s a heretic cannibal!” “He eats with sinners! Heretic!!” Oh…there were people who did that!

[Jonathan Robbins @RobbinsJonathan]

@TheAmberPicota Amen!

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Perhaps the two most honest men of their generation.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I think maybe we’d all be happier people if we made more fun of ourselves and less fun of others. Self importance is a heavy heavy burden.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I mean, I just don’t think we’re going to stand before God on the great day & hear him say, you did such a fabulous job of publicly humiliating heretics. Those pictures were hilarious! Those quotes were the perfect burn! Get in here & let me hug your neck & hang a medal on it.

[Jonathan Robbins @RobbinsJonathan]

Absolute brilliantly simple truth! We've complicated what Jesus died to make really simple.

[Rudy Cerda @RudyCerda]

This video never gets old. Pass it on!

“The man on the middle cross said I can come.”

[Rudy Cerda @RudyCerda]

This video never gets old. Pass it on!

“The man on the middle cross said I can come.”

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

“What would you say to a young Christian who’s nervous about the future?” @DrMoore asks @TimKellerNYC.

I love his answer.

[Jonathan Robbins @RobbinsJonathan]

This!

[Sean Seay @seanseay]

This is my pastor speaking to our state governmental leaders. I hope you'll watch it.
https://t.co/QbJRhGlnWl