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In Jesus’s parables:
• One sheep gets more attention
than 99.
• One-hour workers get the
same paycheck as 12-hour
workers.
• A widow’s two pennies are
worth more than “huge sums.”
Grace is terrible math.
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👎Beware of lists like this about Jesus 👎
Jesus...
- Fed the hungry
- Loved the poor
- Was a brown-skinned, middle-eastern, undocumented immigrant
- Was outraged at systemic injustice
- Elevated women
- Defied the patriarchy
- Eschewed religious power dynamics
- Gave
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@NBCNews
Hey guys, you lost the plot. I know it can be confusing, let me try to help:
The innocent 9 year olds that were gunned down are the good guys, and the person who gunned them down was the bad guy
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Joshua 1: "Rahab the prostitute"
Matthew 1: Rahab, the grandmother of the Messiah
God changes labels and rewrites stories.
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@RobertMSterling
2020: saying “all lives matter” is to miss the point in “dog whistle racism”
2023: “our hearts go out to Israeli victims, but we must equally remember the Palestinians who will be affected in the aftermath”
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A church can be huge and dead.
A church can be small and thriving.
Nobody cares how big grape vines are; the only thing that matters how much fruit they produce.
Big isn't bad (or good) and small isn't bad (or good).
Bad is bad. Good is good.
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CONTEXT: Since the 90's many pastors have strategically avoided publicly teaching culturally controversial issues, saying things like...
- "We draw circles, not lines"
- "We wanna be known for what we're FOR, not what we're against"
- "We handle those issues privately in
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In airport listening to guy in terminal w 3 coworkers casually drop, "I caught an earlier flight, so I could get back for church"
Coworker says, "Worth it?" and guy is 3mins into talking about how it's impacted his / family's life
It's non-cringey and they're really listening
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🧵How Misapplying Keller Hijacked US Xianity🧵
Large-platform evangelicalism got covertly hijacked by secular progressivism, many aren't yet understanding what’s happening, and (as a result) are attacking the *opposite* NET problem we are facing.
Here’s how it happened:
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🧵Megathread: Failure of the Sexual Revolution 🧵
The movement that promised liberation and pleasure has delivered profound misery and brokenness.
Will continue to add to thread…
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🧵An Uncomfortable Woke Post-Mortem🧵
There was intense pressure in large-platform evangelicalism to accept Critical Theory / Woke justice frameworks as "flawed but helpful analytical tool"
But time is proving it wasn't a "helpful tool" but a dangerous ideology w evil outcomes
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PPL ARE LOSING THEIR EVER-LOVING MINDS:
"I see good things in Hitler"
"2 + 2 = 4 is racist actually"
"biological male wins woman of the year"
"we're not sure doctors should treat born infants if the parent wants the kid to die"
It's Christ or chaos, y'all.
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🧵Christians & Conspiracy Theories🧵
There’s a growing trend of characterizing Christians who question a public narrative as unhinged “conspiracy theorists” guilty of “theological paranoia”
But this is to ignore what’s obviously happening (admittedly incendiary examples below)
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Jesus is born: a star in the night
Jesus dies: an eclipse in the day
Why? He’s the light of the world.
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Former MSM journalist I read last year, summarized: “The unspoken rule in the industry is that in every story evangelical Christians must lose”
[even when they are 9 year olds being gunned down, apparently]
EXCLUSIVE: Nashville mass school shooter was rejected by her Christian parents
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Recently discovered a group of ~40 Pakistani Christians were huddling around a 32-in TV to join Lakepointe Online + study the Scriptures together.
We sent them a projector, and it's officially in use 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
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Abortion is the evil reverse-image of the gospel. Instead of saying, "I'll die for you", it says, "You die for me."
#RoeVWade
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🧵UNPOPULAR TAKE ON CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM🧵
Increasingly, any Christian politician or voter advancing their values is decried as “CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM!”
Reality in thread to follow:
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Progressive Christianity grows social media platforms, but kills churches.
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On the night of Jesus' arrest, Peter was willing to kill for Christ but not to die for him.
LESSON: There's a type of counterfeit faithfulness that's willing to 'kill' for Christ, but not willing to die for him.
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Well-resourced churches in Bible Belt:
We have a responsibility to resource churches being planted in secular, high-cost urban centers.
William Carey to Andrew Fuller: “I’ll go into the pit if you will hold the rope.”
There are pit-goers & rope-holders.
We are rope-holders.
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🧵11 PASTOR HACKS🧵
A handful of stuff-that's-not-in-seminary "hacks" have disproportionately helped me in ministry.
Here are 11 of them...
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If Jesus was just a man, he could understand you, but not help you.
If Jesus was only God, he could help you, but not understand you.
But because Jesus was both God and man, he understands you and he can help you.
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I don’t think people realize how frequently the story of Jesus is now selectively-edited in only one direction.
Jesus was a refugee
Jesus was a POC
Jesus was Asian
Jesus was an immigrant
But not…
Jesus’ parents ensured he was legal and documented in a census
Jesus was part
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🧵BACKGROUND: I'm a 3rd-generation pastor. When I was a kid in the 90's it was cool and edgy for PK's to rebel because "it's just so hard being a pastor's kid!"
I always thought that was dumb bc I LOVED being Pastor Rick's son.
Here are 3 things Dad did that made that happen
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Not everything is a big deal. This *is* a big deal.
On Sept. 19, 2019, I was invited to a private dinner with about 15 pastors at a local church in Gilbert, AZ to participate in a Q&A with
@AndyStanley
after he finished speaking at a conference. The subject of homosexuality came up and over the next 1.5 hours…
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“Christians believe in the virgin birth of Jesus.
Materialists in the virgin birth of the cosmos.
Choose your miracle.”
––
@glenscrivener
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@andrewtwalk
@AdamPage85
Step 1: Keller (correctly) popularized the phrase, "The gospel is neither Right nor Left"
Step 2: his followers incorrectly treated phrase as, "Right and Left are equal and opposite errors"
Step 3: willingness to embrace Left positions became a sign of your "gospel
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POST YOUR CHRISTMAS SERVICE PICS/STORIES HERE
Zero judgment for “bragging” in this thread - post them all!
Literally my favorite thing every year hearing / seeing pastors sharing about awesome candlelight services.
(This is my favorite moment from 1 of ours)
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I PROFOUNDLY respect Tim Keller, but there’s a really interesting discussion to be had about what I’d call follower-misapplication of his principles:
Principle: “The gospel is neither Right nor Left”
Misapplication: “I have to both-sides everything and it has to sound like
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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
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SUMMARY: If you’re still doing “coddle Left, haymaker Right” in effort to combat a “marriage to the Right” in 2024, you're bringing a fire extinguisher to a flood
And in a miscalculated effort to “counterbalance”, you're rushing to the side of the ship that’s already underwater.
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// Pastors, Don't "Absalom God" //
(A warning against something I once did that's common among pastors)
Absalom was King David's treasonous son who tried to steal the kingdom from his father.
Here's how he did it...
He turned hearts against David by standing outside
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“Pastor, don’t get political!”
In our culture EVERYTHING is political. If I talk about our Español campus, abortion, sexuality, race, or opposing terrorists (now), I hear “you’re getting political”
In order for a pastor to avoid being political, he has to stop being Biblical.
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When a Christian gets discipled by the culture, their emotions calibrate to the culture’s ethics.
Then, only moral actions and statements that align with the world’s ideologies feel like “the way of Jesus” to that Christian.
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Once you see this you can’t unsee it:
In general, Progressive Christians don't want to engage the Biblical arguments of theological conservatives (bc they know that's a losing battle).
So, to "skip over" dealing with the Bible, they just try to problematize the Bible teachers.
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In 2,000 years the church has debated things as significant as…
- The humanity of Christ
- The deity of Christ
- The nature of the Trinity
- The content of the canon
… but in 2,000 years the church has been *unanimous* on homosexuality (Pope’s ambiguity notwithstanding)
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All things considered: personal character, theological and textual acumen, boldness, sheer giftedness, etc...
Dr. Tony Evans may be the greatest preacher of our generation.
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Mike, couple important things:
1) I wish you could’ve acknowledged at least some truth to thread, bc it feels like you did what I described in the OP: “Approach anything that feels ‘Right’ and look past the good to find the bad in it.”
2) You also quoted me as saying the
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Why is secularism so “meh” on Islam?
Why do secular progressives freak out about an imaginary future in which a theoretical Christian state *could* punish a heretic or subjugate women, while bro-hugging Islam actually doing it?
Doesn't compute, right? Wrong.
Because, at root,
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re: pastoral leadership
It's ok to care about the ABC's (attendance, buildings, cash). Your ppl want you to care they're there, they have a place to worship, & that you steward their generosity well
But you better care about the DEF's too (discipleship, evangelism, fellowship)
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Servanthood: the surprising anxiety-killer
When you walk into a room and your goal is to impress people, what you want is out of your control. Anxiety.
When you walk into a room and your goal, like Christ, is to serve people, what you want is within your control. Peace.
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🧵Christianity Today🧵
Been grateful for
@CTmagazine
over the years (read voraciously since college + had subscription until '22)
But 2 apparent trends at CT have been a significant loss for pastors:
1) Slide toward progressivism
2) Disproportionately negative church-coverage
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🧵🧵PREACHING HACKS🧵🧵
Over-generalization: It is really hard for a church to outgrow (health & size) its preaching, so here's a bunch of "hacks" I've found uniquely helpful...
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Joash, why did you:
1) Crop the picture so it misleadingly cut off the point of the tweet
2) Make it sound like I oppose the things in the list you selectively edited to show in the picture, when I explicitly said the opposite — affirmed many of them ARE TRUE
3) Not interact
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// PRIDE MONTH //
As we head into “Pride Month,” (a month where our nation celebrates the chief deadly sin of “pride”) gentle reminder to Christ followers that “affirmation or hate” aren't the only 2 choices, and if anyone tells you that, they’re using choice architecture to
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Beware of (VERY POPULAR) lists like this about Jesus...
👎👎👎
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And just like that, I became a Celtics fan.
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Another extremely uncomfortable reality:
This is showing that Christian immigration policy can’t simply be boiled down to, “Love the sojourner and welcome the immigrant. Alright I think we settled everything here, y’all!”
The Bible distinguishes between the role of the
Protestors in Philadelphia stand outside of a Jewish & Israeli owned falafel restaurant
“Goldie, Goldie you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide”
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I respect straightforwardness.
I despise unkindness.
Both are confused with each other all the time.
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A pastor must do 2 things:
1) Love people (Matt 5v44)
2) Destroy arguments (2 Cor 10v5)
Callous pastors don’t love ppl
Cowardly pastors won’t destroy arguments
When you destroy arguments, they’ll accuse you of being unloving
When you love ppl, they’ll question your convictions
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One of the best things you can do for your church this Christmas is to sit in the front middle of the room, worship passionately, and respond to your pastor's preaching.
10 people like that can change the atmosphere of a whole room, lift hearts heavenward.
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After this they moved on to reminiscing about the usage of fax machines and "Lotus Notes" (I don't know what that is).
Nobody saved on the spot, but that guy moved the needle... and that's how it happens.
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As a result, these subtle dynamics emerged:
- Christians advocating a Left-coded issue = “social justice”
- Christians advocating a Right-coded issue = “culture warring”
- The Right became seen as the moralistic Pharisees Jesus harshly condemned
- The Left became seen as the
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PSA because I'm seeing it used on TV at in-laws:
99% of the time, "Christian Nationalism" is an intentionally unstable label whose subtext is, "You can't advocate for your values in the public square, but I can advocate for mine."
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On the same day, I watched
- The COO of a Fortune 500 company teach a Bible study to 8 middle school boys (he does every week)
- A state politician who also attends our church texted me someone he's been sharing Christ with for 3 months came to Jesus this week
I love my "job"
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THEM: “You can’t mix politics and religion!”
ALSO THEM:
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A very uncomfortable reality:
As secular progressivism increasingly hijacks the Left, and (as Mark Sayers has insightfully shown) the organizing principle of secularism is an "exorcism of Christianity", we are going to have to acknowledge some awkward 'partisan' realities.
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