Excerpt from tomorrow’s sermon: “When a Messiah crowned in thorns & praying His Father’s forgiveness for those crucifying Him becomes compatible w/a political movement defined by selfishness & advocating violence against those who merely hold different political convictions... 1/
“... you are no longer following Jesus. You are following a god remade in your own cultural or political image. You are not submitting your cultural or political identity to the God in whose image you were made. Period.” 2/3
Full sermon and context here: 3/3
Pray for your pastor this morning.
To be honest, I’m blessed w/ a congregation who will hear this sermon w/humble & open hearts, so
I’m genuinely not worried to say all of the above.
Many pastors will risk their livelihood by preaching truth today.
Unlike me, @dpcassidyC3 is saying this from the heart of evangelicalism and the church where CCM was birthed out of. THIS is courage. THIS is speaking truth with love prophetically.
A vitally important thread. Much isnt new, but is so in the air we breathe we forget how RECENT it is & therefore how unaccustomed we r to coping w/it. At the risk of hijacking her great observatns, theyre pivotal to points others have made re: Institutional Evangelicalism...1/12
1. The increased burden of sifting fact from fiction is one that only the economically privileged have the bandwidth to keep up with day-to-day, especially w/the SPEED of news generation we've seen in the last 6-10 years. This contributes to polarization & significantly... 2/12
... disadvantages blue collar America (on the left and the right) in an info economy, and is a massive catalyst for populist sentiments that make it exponentially harder for already-weak institutions to lead or swim against the tide (see Yuval Levin's "A Time to Build"). 3/12