Camille Wheeler

Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning, great is Your faithfulness. - Lam. 3:22-23

[Camille Wheeler @wheelercami93]

@BethMooreLPM Same!!! I love that song!!!

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I share this post in earnest and (what may prove a naive) hope that a few people caught in the situation I’m about to describe will hear instead of rushing to the usual tropes, criticisms and caricatures. For what it’s worth, I offer this in good faith.

Between 2016 and 2022, I faced a test of the genuineness of my faith so large and consequential, I’m almost at a loss to think of the right adjectives to describe it. It might not have been so big to someone else but it involved so much of my Christian identity, it was all but existential. Well more than that. It was a dying.

It is this test that helps me understand why people who seem deeply devoted to the Lord Jesus and hold the scriptures in highest esteem also hold to a system, institution or leader no matter what they do and defend a side or individual to a degree that is baffling.

I can tell you why because I had to face every bit of it. Identity, community, camaraderie, what we’ve known and loved, what part of it we still love, the people we loved, the people we still love, reputation, what people will think, how you will be judged and condemned and thrown over to the other side who doesn’t want you either. And to whom you also do not align and would not belong. Friendships. How you will be misunderstood and misrepresented. How adrift and alone you will feel. How disliked.

And then there’s this and it would be a mistake to minimize it: your JOB. Your source of income. Your vocation.

This is the part of the crisis I most write these words to convey because I think they are most in play for many right now, whether in media, ministry or politics.

Let me try to put this in the words that were constantly resonant in my spirit in those years. And to this day.

Though you have no other place to go, Beth, and no place to fit and it not only MAY have financial repercussions but WILL have financial repercussions to the ministry and to your family and will also make them targets and none of it will ever look the same or be the same, will you choose what you believe to be right and put everything else in your vocational life at risk?

This is what is at risk for many people whose professional reputations and positions are tied up with leaders, institutions and political parties. Mine was, too. The cost is enormous and the options are often untenable. And so there we are.

Having to cast ourselves on the mercy of God. Not for a third way. But as THE ONLY WAY. The only truth. The only life.

I’ve made multiple errors in judgment. Jumped too quickly to condemn. Spoken wrongly. Remained silent wrongly and confusingly. I never get it completely together.

But what I will tell you is that I believe we are meant first and foremost to call out our own house, our own side, and our own identity group for its mind-boggling hypocrisy. These were my people. Evangelicals. Conservatives.

Claim what you will but I know who I am:

I am pro life from conception to casket.
I am pro small government.
I am pro godliness and the pursuit of a holy life.
I am pro marriage and family and pro-those God calls to remain single and sanctified and I’m deeply thankful for them.
I am pro traditional sexual ethics.
I am pro love of God and love of neighbor and the dignity of every person as an image bearer of Christ.
I am pro love all.
I am pro church. I believe in the community of the saints.
I am pro Bible study to the death and believe the aim of all discipleship is to know and love and follow and emulate Jesus Christ.
I am pro gospel. Dear God in heaven, I am pro gospel. I believe there is one name by whom we must be saved. Jesus.

What I am not is pro Trump.

Wasn’t pro Clinton. Wasn’t pro Biden. But those were not the candidates many in the world that I loved so much were cheering on.

I accept that Donald Trump is my president. I pray for him on a regular basis. I’m a law abiding citizen and pay my taxes. But I believe Trump fosters something in people that makes them lose their way.

[Camille Wheeler @wheelercami93]

When JM disrespected Beth Moore, I lost respect for him. But this! Thankful for Elder Cho’s attempt to correct this wrong, and disgusted and angry at GCC. My heart hurts for all those hurt and misled by this church, showing us yet again who they are. https://t.co/tj2Indb24k

[SBC Executive Committee @SBCExecComm]

A statement on today’s Supreme. Court decision from SBC president @bartbarber.

“State-by-state, mother-by-mother, heart-by-heart we will continue our sacred work…"

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Pro-life Americans should greet the reversal of Roe with gratitude. But we should also demonstrate profound charity. Animosity undermines the cause for life, especially when culture is still more important than law in the quest to end abortion in America: https://t.co/fpGQvk9rzi

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Pro-life friends: Please read Lincoln's Second Inaugural and be guided by its spirit. Let us not exult over those of our fellow citizens--good people who are sincerely concerned about women's welfare--who see the demise of Roe as a disaster. Malice towards none; charity for all.

[Camille Wheeler @wheelercami93]

@ChrisBonts Prayers for M❤️ and for you all to get home safely!

[Emily Snook @hoopersnook]

Here’s the thing.
If we aren’t supposed to be the first to lay down our rights & our privileges & even our lives for the sake of others being set free and made whole- then what do we mean when we say being confirmed to the likeness of Christ?
Honestly. What?

[Bob Roberts Jr. ن @bobrobertsjr]

We should go to church not because we have it together or are endorsing the church as is but because we are broken and are seeking God together on our knees in repentance and brokenness

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

I will trust in God. Serve God. And even in the darkest nights when I still cry, I will find rest in the light of His love. Then tomorrow, I’ll get up and do it all again.

[Camille Wheeler @wheelercami93]

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[Jen Oshman @jenoshman]

Our church plant turned five years old today. What a gift. God has been immeasurably merciful and faithful. Thank you, King Jesus.
@RedemptionPRKR
@Acts29
@A29West

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Try as I may, I cannot give way to cynicism. My God is too good. My Savior, too merciful. Our future, too certain. Christ’s face, too lovely. Our promised oneness, too marvelous. Our future fellowship, too laughably glorious. The love ahead, too lavish. The Table, too delicious.

[Camille Wheeler @wheelercami93]

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[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I cannot caution you enough, Christian leaders in your 20s & 30s, or with more genuine love & concern, to be deeply merciful to people in word & in deed. Be very very slow to condemn, cancel & to claim what you’d never do. Especially publicly, You have hardly begun to be tested.

[Sophia Lee 소현 @SophiaLeeHyun]

This from Kathy Keller is gold: “Speak as if you’re being overheard.” “What would the non-believer conclude about Jesus or Christians if they heard what you said?”

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Tolerance is not approving an opinion you do not hold. It's about treating the person --who's saying what you can powerfully disagree with--with respect, humility, and love.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Pride is the carbon monoxide of sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

[Annie F. Downs @anniefdowns]

December 21st. Winter solstice. The darkest day of the year.

Every day of the fall has been getting darker towards today.

But tomorrow?

It starts getting lighter. In tiny tiny increments. But light is coming. It doesn't get any darker than today.

Light is coming.

[lori frank @lorifrank1]

People sharing photos of Beth Moore taken during worship (without consent) and sharing her church’s identity (which she had withheld) in order to criticize her (unjustly) are guilty of meanness and bullying.