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9 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Regeneration is a total change. It’s not a change into perfection of course. But it frees our will, changes our heart, gives us a new nature,
new affections, new desires. WE ARE MADE ALIVE!!! (Eph 2:5)
Before regeneration we are the walking dead. Loving sin. Haters of God. Loving our own self. We think the world revolves around us. We are slaves to our passions. We follow Satan. We chase after the world.

BUT GOD.
When God makes us alive we go from hating God to loving Him. We love the Scriptures. We love the Church. We love to pray.

If these are not true of a person, that person has not been made alive.
They may claim to have had some experience, they may claim to believe in or follow Jesus. But to be made alive is a total change.

There is no partial or halfway change.
Regeneration is total.

Our affections, wills, mind, hearts, desires, loves – they are all changed and we begin to live a new life and follow Christ according to His Word.

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Allen S. Nelson IV Profile picture
8 Apr
A Thread (and a resolve): (11 tweets)

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A defining issue for #SBC21 will be this: Can women, in *any* context, preach to men - with preaching defined as expositing a text of Scripture with "logic on fire" (DMLJ)?
2/ Maybe we can frame the question a little better but it needs to be asked to entity heads and perhaps written up in a resolution. And we probably need to affix it to the BFM but that will take two meetings.
3/ Are there more important theological issues than women preaching to men? Yes, of course. But in the SBC this is an important dividing line because it reveals differences about gender roles, sufficiency of Scripture, ecclesiology, and even in some cases CRT...
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8 Apr
I’m disappointed. My wife graciously didn’t tell me about these till tonight. A few things:

1. I did not twist anything. I quote tweeted facts. Yes, @JackiCKing preached to a men and women at @CriswellCollege. This is indisputable.
2. Does this make Jacki not a Christian or Josh? Of course not. Does it make them out of bounds of the BFM 2000? Yes of course it does. Why not just say “Hey, this was wrong. I’m sorry.” I don’t get it.

3. I really don’t know what Dr. Zeb @ZebBalentine means.
4. If you’d like to see my brand, it’s posted below. It’s been quite a physical, emotional, and financial investment to build it. But worth it times one million.
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2 Feb
It is going to be a volatile few months leading up to the SBC meeting in Nashville. And I’m saddened. I’m saddened as look at the SBC landscape and I see men lining up on a different side than me that I once greatly admired and respected.

Continued:
I’m saddened at seemingly well meaning brothers and sisters who have completely capitulated on women’s roles in the church and have allowed and promoted the preaching of women and even approved of women serving as pastors as long as it’s not a “lead pastor”
I’m saddened that our SBC President canceled church for so long in 2020. And that many in the SBC do not seem to understand and appreciate the essentialness of the local church and it’s nature: regenerate church membership, biblical worship, etc.
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22 Jan
In CRT the only way not to be a racist is to agree with the tenets of CRT regarding power structures and oppression. What some Southern Baptists are trying to do is say “hey we can use the ‘good’ parts of crt to help identify sin areas.”

Thread:
Btw, that’s at best. And I always appreciate the humble brothers and sisters who genuinely want to identify and fight sin.

However, they are wrong. First, because there is nothing necessary that CRT brings that helps identify sin issues that cannot be identified w/ Scripture.
2ndly, what CRT identifies as problems are not even biblical categories for sin: such as just being white or a white male or a white housewife or whatever. Those are not sin issues.

3rdly, CRT wrongly emphasizes that man’s problem is first w/ man, and not God. 1000x wrong.
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18 Dec 20
I just read these statements. A few reactions:

1. I’m not sure how many times the SBC can repent for its being founded on slavery.

2. The original statement is so laden with CRT categories like “power” and “influence” that it is either done in blatant ignorance or maliciously
3. To accuse brothers, like me, who rightly hate CRT of only caring about “winning” is the height of uncharitableness.

4. JD said “I, for one, remain committed to a posture of humility.” I have a 4a and 4b to that:
4a. JD could have shown this by stepping down as president and giving his position to a minority person. That is, if he *actually* believed what he is writing. But it appears to me he does not. 4b. why is pro CRT the “humble” position? This seems like virtue signaling to the max
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23 Nov 20
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Here’s a long thread for your Monday!

For the United States: In 1820 the avg life expectancy was 40. In 1920 it was 60. In 2020 it is 80.
2/
I’ve said this for a few years now but I think longer life expectancy has actually caused us to handle the reality of death even worse. Billions of dollars are spent every year just on fighting the appearance of aging!
3/
Though we now live twice as many years on average as Americans 200 years ago, I’m not sure we are living twice the life as so much time, energy, and money is spent on avoiding the inevitable.

The covid-19 crisis has only illuminated this issue.
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