Martin Lloyd-Jones warned:
"Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire."
The tragedy of our age is that we have the theology but have lost the fire. We possess the content but lack the power that makes dead bones live.
10/ The basin and towel are waiting. The question is whether we're tired enough of being strangers to come home finally.
Full piece:
https://t.co/kqKLiMUX3p
π§΅ Why you feel like a stranger in your own church
1/ Something profoundly disorienting happens when you sit surrounded by people who share your faith, yet feel like you're visiting a foreign country where everyone speaks a language you recognize but can't quite speak yourself.
9/ The church has the opportunity to offer something the world can't find anywhere else: communities where belonging is gift rather than achievement, where love really does go to the end.
@1Nicdar 100 years ago the south. Now with tech AI and digital currency geographic positioning and population the West all day. Northeast never had a chance. Maybe they can spy for the west.
8/8 If this resonates, I'd be grateful if you'd read and share. And I genuinely want to hear: Where have you seen communion create connection across political divides?
1/8
I witnessed an elderly Black woman who marched with King sharing communion bread with a MAGA supporter. This wasn't an accident but deliberate practice.
https://t.co/sc1jdxdFJi
7/8 This approach won't win elections or secure cultural power. But it might preserve the soul of a nation that has forgotten how to disagree without destroying itself.