Nick Nunez

No King But Christ.

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@JustinPetersMin By what standard?

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@ImKingGinger What’s the point of this post? Kinda funny NXR is living rent free in your head….at least enough for you to check on their analytics and try to shame them.

[Zachary Garris @ZacharyGarris]

Every age of the church is marked by particular theological controversies.

I’ve heard it said ours is anthropology.

I think that’s right, with an emphasis on authority (in the family, church, & state).

This is where the unbelieving culture most fiercely opposes the Word of God (and nature). They don’t care that Christians believe in miracles. They hate male headship.

And just as the culture’s rationalist attacks produced theological liberalism in the 20th century, so the culture’s egalitarian pressure has produced a new theological liberalism when it comes to things like gender roles in the family & church.

[Brian Sauvé @Brian_Sauve]

You can oppose feminism in theory in Christian or conservative circles. That is allowed.

What you absolutely may not do is oppose feminism in practice.

That will earn you a permanent mob of online church ladies following you around pretending to be offended.

[Rick Appleton @RickApplet0n]

The Bible is a patriarchal book given to a patriarchal people by a patriarchal God.

[Tom Thiessen @tomthie55en]

Many churches have a female-coded culture of piety.

This rigs the game so that even if men lead by title, women lead via moral authority.

A truly Biblical piety is crucial to a healthy church. I’ve found singing and praying through the Psalms a great way to cultivate this.

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@thejjalvarez @LizzieMarbach Because Postmil is true.

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@tomthie55en So good

[Rick Appleton @RickApplet0n]

If a woman were to spend all day long praying and chanting, her style of life would not be as agreeable to God as if she were a wife who patiently performed her duties, feeding her children, caring for them, guiding them and doing all she could to teach and train them — Calvin

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@CovenantReform2 @douglaswils @DemarsSean I’d be shocked if he actually said that. And if so, what a stupid rule.

[Zachary Garris @ZacharyGarris]

America is the result of Christians doing more than just preaching the gospel and planting churches.

They did that yes.

But they also applied the Bible to civil government.

And that included laws to encourage Sunday worship & rest.

[Zachary Garris @ZacharyGarris]

God worked 6 days and rested 1.

The 4th Commandment required God’s people to follow this pattern.

We still have 7-day weeks, but Jesus coming now means “structure your week however you want”?

This is Antinomianism.

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@tomthie55en Good point.

[Tom Thiessen @tomthie55en]

Children are like arrows in a quiver, and a man with a bunch of godly children won’t be put to shame in the gate.

But they can’t stand with you in the gate if they are scattered around the country.

[The Jolly Brawler @TheJollyBrawler]

This seems like a good day to talk about "Youth Ministry":

1. Youth Ministry has been an absolute failure.

2. It turns out, removing children from the Divine Service (which God instituted), their parents, and the sacraments; and placing them in some age segregated quasi-service (that God did not institute), lead by a quasi-Pastor, only produces quasi-Christians.

3. But because a series of Cottage Industries have cropped up around this position, many Christians don't even think about questioning the validity of Children's Church.

4. The entire basis of Children's Church is focused on the idea that kids cannot understand the Sermon being preached from the pulpit, so they must be taught elsewhere. There are a few issues with this:
-Kids pick up more than you know.
-This is based on the faulty assumption that the main thing that is taking place in the service is a lecture to be grasped.
-This is often used to hide the much uglier truth that adults have grown to despise the sound of children in the congregation.

5. Further, the lack of wisdom in placing children outside of the care of the parents and grandparents, handing them over to some dork who thinks that "Youth Pastor" is a real thing, and letting them be trained up by their peers rather than by mature Christians is breathtaking.

6. We must remember how Youth Ministries started. They started in England as a way to reach Non-Christian children who could not be catechized by their parents (many were orphans). But even in the beginning, there was a great deal of backlash against the movement. Because Christians realized that if they continue to do this:
-We would start using Youth Ministries for actual Christian children which would lead to their removal from the Divine Service
-Eventually, Parents would stop catechizing their own children and would leave that to the "Youth Pastor"

Both of those things happened.

7. Finally, this has been an obvious disaster for the church. At the same time that Youth Ministry was ascending in the church, we saw greater and greater numbers of our children apostatizing.

The answer is not more Youth Ministry. The answer is the God-ordained Divine Service, faithful parents catechizing their children, access to the saving waters of baptism and the true body and blood of Jesus Christ.

[Tom Thiessen @tomthie55en]

You don’t have to be young and foolish.

Christ can make you young and wise.

Ask Him and read the Proverbs over and over.

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@thejjalvarez @WellsJorda89710 Dang boiiiii. What covenantally grounded church you be going to these days?

[Alvarez @thejjalvarez]

@WellsJorda89710 1. The Land convenant was conditional (Ex. 19:5; Deuteronomy 28)

2. Amos didn’t prophecy to Jews.

3. Jews who follow Jesus are not rejected, but those that do are.

4. All Israel will be saved because Israel are the people of Christ.

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@Brian_Sauve @New_Christendom Madden crushed it. So good. An exhortation for the ages. Activate turbo mode.

[Nick Nunez @tribeandtrail]

@noahdaneburnett @Mr_C_Hietala I’m your huckleberry.