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Timothy Isaiah Cho

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28 Feb

A Christian counseling methodology that only accounts for people as sinners and not also as sinned against is woefully incompetent and deleterious to souls. And yet, the disturbing irony is that such methodologies get the stamp of approval of being "biblical counseling."

Such "biblical counseling" can't be truly biblical with such a deficient view of sin and its effects - we know that the Bible speaks clearly about whole categories of being sinned against, including interpersonal, systemic, and oppressive. And yet, this "biblical counseling"

only deals with everything within the narrow category of sinner - what did you do wrong, what should you repent of, what you can change moving forward.

Such "biblical counseling" also positions itself with a sense of arrogance, as though it has the corner of the market

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Timothy Isaiah Cho

@tisaiahcho

27 Feb

People who have experienced bullying in their childhood are often adept at recognizing the same bullying tactics among adults in the church.

Here's a good refresher for what bullying looks like among school aged children. Sadly, you can see these among Christians, even Christian leaders.

stopbullying.gov/bullying/what-…

Here's a good resource on workplace bullying. There are quite a few parallels as they relate to working in Christian nonprofits and church settings that are toxic.

healthline.com/health/workpla…?

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Timothy Isaiah Cho

@tisaiahcho

27 Feb

I don't believe that Christian leaders need to be experts on a certain subject before they can weigh in with their opinion on it. However, I do believe that Christian leaders need to realize the impact their influence has and the implicit faith that their followers place on them.

It's very high stakes when a Christian leader decides to weigh in on a subject that has ripple effects on the way vulnerable people are treated or mistreated. It's also very high stakes when a Christian leader remains silent when he/she must speak up.

Christian leaders should therefore lead with a posture that is full of humility and is open to correction. Rather than make hyperbolic statements, broad generalizations, and "I have the last word" rhetoric, Christian leaders should do their own homework the best they can,

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Timothy Isaiah Cho

@tisaiahcho

21 Feb

Piper and Grudem are a primary proponent of a bizarre interpretation of Judges:

"Deborah, a prophetess, judge, and mother in Israel..., along with Jael..., was a living indictment of the weakness of Barak and other men in Israel who should have been more courageous leaders."

I heard this same interpretation proliferated through seminary and in Reformed churches as assumed fact. Yet, the fact of the matter is that nowhere in the Bible does it hint at the fact that Deborah, Jael, & other leading women were an indictment against failed male leadership.

It's actually placing a grid of interpretation upon the biblical text. It's reading a presupposition of "manhood and womanhood" into the text where the Bible actually commends Deborah and Jael (Judges 5). "Most blessed of women be Jael..." the biblical text says, not "this was

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Timothy Isaiah Cho

@tisaiahcho

20 Feb

Studies in neuroscience over the past several decades have shown that our frontal lobes have "mirror neurons" that literally mirror the neurons of a person we see who is experiencing strong emotions. Mirror neurons are central to human capacity for empathy.

As a Christian, there are some interesting takeaways from this longstanding research.

First, it shows that humans are hard-wired toward empathy. Our imagebearing at creation was corporate/communal in its intention - we were meant to experience the emotions of others for good.

Second, empathy itself is not inherently a sin, contrary to some Christian leaders who argue such. Like the rest of the goodness of who we are as humans, we have good human faculties, and due to sin, all of our faculties can become warped and bent toward sin.

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Timothy Isaiah Cho

@tisaiahcho

19 Feb

On this day in 1942, approx. 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly incarcerated in American concentration camps after President FDR's Executive Order 9066.

It is estimated that at least 80,000 of these Japanese Americans were 2nd or 3rd generation American citizens.

The state of California defined anyone with 1/16th or more Japanese lineage as subject to the incarceration. The architect of this stripping of civil rights wanted to have anyone who had "one drop of Japanese blood" placed into concentration camps.

Many Japanese Americans who had made a living on the west coast lost their businesses, homes, and land. Neighbors took advantage of their incarceration in order to steal their property (a contemporary Saul and Naboth's vineyard situation).

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