Once again, Joel Webbon, AD Robles, Michael Foster, and many others consider this man a solid brother in the Lord. Others have warned and warned and warned, but Christian CN leaders have embraced Torba with open arms. Use discernment out there.
@DelaKram75
The church is commanded to bear each other’s burdens, which implies working through emotions and communicating them. Repression is the fast lane to disaster.
Zionism is merely the belief that the Jewish people have a right to a peaceful homeland in the land of Israel. This here is antisemitism, referencing conspiracy theories of a global Jewish cabal, and it's long past time that this man's friends in the Reformed world called it out.
@TheoManBabies
This is a Christian pastor exhorting men to watch movies with excessive violence, profanity, and nudity in them, as opposed to the PG comedy The Princess Bride.
If millennials JD Vance (1984) and Vivek Ramaswamy (1985) are poised as the future of the party, maybe the whole "Boomers are the problem" meme doesn't hold as much water. Also, I guess Jews are just an outright problem to Brian now.
Christians need to mark and avoid professing believers who promote the antichristian pseudoscience of physiognomy, phrenology, and eugenics. The alt right who promote these are the followers of Margaret Sanger, not Christ.
@DustyDeevers
A culture that values massive building projects over the Great Commission. Or maybe a return to a relic- and indulgence-based church economy.
"'Just preach the gospel' won't cut it anymore."
I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, first for the Jew, and then for the Greek. (Romans 1:16)
The gospel is enough. Beware anyone who says it isn't.
@PastorBenMarsh
@JoelWBerry
Ben is right. “Praying outside” on the sidewalk is not a crime in the US yet. Trespassing, threatening violence, and blocking entry are. We should be concerned primarily with truth in our witness.
Loser is as loser does. Watch as Webbon the Wacko enforces Carl Schmitt's friend/enemy distinction. His goal is to crush his enemies. Believe what he says because that is what he is attempting to do here.
Meanwhile, Jesus says, 'Love your enemies...'
@ScottAniol
There's nothing inherently wrong with citing the New York Times or CNN or the Atlantic or even Vice. Is it true? That's what Christians are concerned about. Reasonable people paid no attention to the RWW logo and just listened to Wolfe's words.
Christians are being conditioned on the right to hate their enemies. It's impossible to love and pray for someone you're constantly raging against. We need to stand unmoving on Biblical truth while also actively cultivating Biblical love for a sin-sick world. I hope you will read
@MikeCosper
The America of 1900 was not the America of 1850, which was not the America of 1800, which was not...
There was never a homogenous and virtuous society. That's bad history and worse theology.
No, Blake Callens is telling the truth. I strongly recommend everyone read this excellent expose of Wolfean Christian Nationalism (itself published by Wilson's Canon Press).
Blake Callens is a slanderer. But one of the things you shouldn’t do for slanderers is give them juicy bits they don’t have to make up. Why do their work for them? 4/5
@Stephen_Angliss
There it is. Childbirth can save a nation in spiritual decline. Their soteriology is federal, and the more extreme of them have said that the gospel isn't enough. It's the social gospel, the prosperity gospel, the same old heresy.
The Mormons and the Muslims have big families.
@Eric_Conn
@ostrachan
So Christian women ARE birthing machines, and children are tools for defeating Islam? You know that's how the Screwtape Letters works, don't you?
A "Reformed" ministry that is not regularly preaching against the bloated idolatry of the state, the self-deification of government programs, welfare, and redistribution of wealth -- the pagan shrine of our day -- that ministry is not Reformed in any meaningful sense of the word.
@Janet_Mefferd
This movement is going absolutely nowhere. They can’t even persuade conservative Christians to form an alliance. They block at the slightest whiff of resistance. No “iron sharpening iron.”
@sethjudgehezeki
Unless divinely sanctioned, no. Read Psalm 1 and see the destiny of the mockers. And we are never called to mock our brothers in the Lord.
@GregThornberg
I don't know how anyone reads Peter's letters and comes away with the impression that the Christian life will be one of earthly conquest. And Peter of all the disciples was most tempted toward that view.
People are not owed private interaction over criticism of their public content, especially if they are chronic attention-seekers. Remember, folks, this is a global publishing platform.
@joe_rigney
Europe has all of these: nominal Christian government, hereditary monarchs that are “defenders of the faith,” and a “mere Christendom,” but they’ve done nothing to restrain the evil there.
@blakecallens
@PerfInjust
@HwsEleutheroi
The last 12 months have made me seriously wonder where exactly we DO draw the line of separation. Wolfe may not be a formal heretic, but absolutely nothing of his behavior online has shown the love and humility of Christ. Where's the discernment?
This satanic little creep is calling for the murder of Jews. "The enemies of Christ have no future in this world," he says, unaware that he's referring to himself.
@DanBerkholder
Preaching is a simple act of proclaiming the truth. Women are forbidden from it in the assembly by divine mandate, not "created ability." Ability is not the same as commission. That was Allie's entire point. She's on your side of the issue.
"Someone should tell Eric that he is adopted, and it was at a great cost to his adopted Father and Brother" - Bears repeating very often. Very well said.
Eric MUST be edgy
And so he says stupid stuff like this
Someone should tell Eric that he is adopted,
and it was at a great cost to his adopted Father and Brother
@chris_jolliff
It makes more sense of the Sheep and Goats judgment primarily being a judgment of how the nations treated the Jews during the time of their trouble (“the least of these, my brethren”).
Call NETTR (No Enemies to the Right) what it is: moral relativism. By supporting it, you're stating that political victory is your ultimate goal, not truth.
Regardless of your eschatology, the Jewish people deserve special honor for their role in bringing about the Messiah and the church. Romans 11 should terrify Christians who play with antisemitism.
do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast against them, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.
— Romans 11:18
@SovMichael
Yes. National divorce is the end of our hegemony, shifting the power structure to BRICS. Europe will cave, and the power structure that keep our liberties in place will be eroded. Only God knows what would happen to us then, but it would probably look a lot like Europe now.
The death penalty ends all possibility for repentance. There is a place for it in a civil society. However, Christian political theorists should think very, very carefully about the implications of ending someone's life amid the "prime directive" of the Great Commission.
@blakecallens
I don't see an eagerness here to share the gospel or welcome them to the community, either. The nations are brought to our doorstep, and our response is to run to Appalachia, where it's safe.
@TomBuck
@RevKevDeYoung
@TGC
If I had a dollar for everyone who said: "I’m no fan of much of the rhetoric that comes out of Moscow" and yet cannot square that with Ezekiel's language, I would be rich. Of course, filthy language is a sin, but according to the broad definition evangelicals use for "filthy
He’s right, and the point is absolutely lost on the audience here. One’s salvation status is the Lord’s business, but we are to call out dangerous teaching where we see it and have no association with it. Webbon’s declaration that children of Christians are saved is just one ex.
Webbon is a danger to the body of Christ &/sadly, JW's endorsement of him here will likely go unchallenged b/c it seems that large platform speakers get a pass on these things, but this will come back to bite him in the future. This instance is a serious lack of discernment.
In point of fact, the Bible tells us of exactly one earthly profession that women cannot perform (1 Tim 2:12). Your conscience's mileage may vary, but don't add to Scripture.
The responses to this fundamental true statement show how many have begun to include good works (and political strategy) into the salvific content of the gospel. Key word is “most critical.” If you can’t draw a line around the gospel, you have another gospel.
America’s most critical need is not:
•Less debt
•Better laws
•Fewer taxes
•Higher taxes
•Quality schools
•Larger churches
•Social programs
•Stronger families
•Safer communities
•Affordable healthcare
•Competent leadership
America needs the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
How many “masculine” (emphasize scare quotes) sit under pastors who serve them grape juice for communion? Might as well serve them a baby bottle with a nipple and milk in it.
If your church is gearing up for massive litigation, it's probably a good sign you've had significant mission drift—not always, but probably most often.
@benrcrenshaw
Do you not hear how weird it sounds, though, to say that you found a Godly desire to restore the nation after a workout session? Where do repentance, faith, and the Great Commission fit into that?
@jarbitro
@contramordor
@PerfInjust
Jesse, you are absolutely right, but if you haven't interacted with these guys yet, understand that it will be 100% unproductive.
@sethjudgehezeki
Sinners aren't converted through mockery, but through the kindness of God and the preaching of the gospel. They're also mocking Jordan Cooper.
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[Christ] is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. Colossians 1:18
@ostrachan
Absolutely. It is sinister and has been ignored far too long. There are other gospels at play. "Love your own," in all of its unspoken insinuations, is a call to reject the Great Commission for tribalism and endless warfare.
I filed SB2031 to repeal the Oklahoma income tax.
I believe the income tax is an unjust tax upon and man’s first fruits and livelihood, thus a violation of the 6th, 8th, and 10th commandments, at least, and a violation of the 1st commandment in asserting a power only God
@TheOtherPaul2
@geoffbaron
It is a sin for people to bear false witness. Deliberately rejecting the clear historical testimony of millions of people is a sign that a person does not love the truth, but loves lies instead. Believing delusions is a sign that a person is already in sin. 2 Thess 2:10-12.
The Bible knows two classes of created beings: angels and humans. That's it. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to soft-pedal a group of demons masquerading as something else.
For those still holding on to the pretense
that Christian Nationalism is not full of xenophobic bigotry, they are now coming out of the woodwork to preach against foreign missionary work.
Decent Christian people never thought we’d see the day, but here we are. This is vile
@blakecallens
@mereorthodoxy
Those who are wise to see the play see that another Christ has been smuggled in. It took years to accomplish, but those who slap each other on the back and say "Christ is King" do not mean anything near to what Christians believe about that statement.
@KevinDJohnson
This movement has far more in common with the YRR than with anything confessional or conservative. It's highly reactionary and personality-driven.