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6 May, 5 tweets, 1 min read

CRT says: Racism is embedded in our institutions, systems, and culture.

The Bible says: Sin is embedded in our institutions, systems, and culture

CRT says: retell stories of hardships & disparities, aka “lived experiences” in order to humanize the lives of BIPOC

The Bible says: retell the story of God’s faithfulness despite ALL being sinned against by others; retell testimonies of the lives of regenerated saints

CRT: the interests of BIPOC are inferior to the interests of the majority “white”, whose interests dominate society & culture

The Bible: be in the world but not of it cuz the interests of the world contracts the interests of the saints; God sets apart a people for His glory

CRT: white people only care about the issues & concerns of BIPOC ONLY IF those issues/concerns benefit white people

Bible: God cares about issues & concerns of ALL people but has a specific & special concern for those who He gives new hearts, exhibited by a life of repentance

CRT: American law written by white people & benefits mostly white people, even the civil rights laws

Bible: God wrote His law, benefiting none, since none has been able to keep it perfectly, EXCEPT for Christ Jesus, who enables us to look to God’s law not as a burden but a gift

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If we look upon those who think differently than us concerning social justice as unconverted, in a state of enmity against God and his grace, they are a more proper object of our compassion than of our anger. Remember: “He knows not what he does.”

But you know who has made you to think differently, if God, in his sovereignty, had not given you clarity, you might have been as they are now; and they instead of you be the one trying to defend the gospel.

You were both equally blind by nature. If you attend to this, you will not reproach or hate them, because the Lord has been pleased to open your eyes, and not theirs.

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12 Apr

Our generational history tell us where we’ve come from but it does not dictate where we are going

Domestic violence was in my early childhood home. After they divorced, frequent physical abuse part of my elementary & Jr high years. Being bullied was part of my Jr/Sr high years

Sexual violence was part of my late teens. Homelessness w/ two toddlers of my own was my early twenties.

Domestic violence in my first marriage was my late twenties.

And that’s just the “pretty parts”

If it were not for the LORD’s intervention, the generational cycle of family dysfunction would have continued.

I was not saved by a ministry, a person or a church, but by God himself by showing me His Son.

That alone not only gave me a new identity, but changed my trajectory

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23 Oct 20

Those of us familiar with the term coyote since CHILDHOOD know that those who pretend to care about illegal immigration really don’t & are using this issue to bash THIS administration but blatantly ignore that most of the harmful exploitative evil acts come from across the border

To assume that all the various Latin American cultures operate on the same human dignity value system is immature at best & grossly naive, even by those who claim to be educated. The fix isn’t to bring them all to the US, as a “Christian missionary charity” effort to win souls.

If Christians really cared about the souls of L. Americans why not go to them & live amongst them: in poverty. Many won’t do that cuz that will cost too much (security/freedom). Its easier to encourage L. Americans to come here & break laws so they don’t have to give up anything.

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23 Oct 20

With 1 mil followers on Twitter, Piper knows his words influence, even as he writes he’s not trying to do that. If Piper posted this after the election, it might have been more effective, but....

.....to use Greek & Scripture reference to attempt to shame Trump supporters for wanting to vote for an arrogant man in comparison to voting for an open racist long term politician who approves of baby murder under the term “reproductive health”. This feels like pastoral abuse.

Biden has been in politics 7 years longer than Piper has been in ministry yet he’s just now realizing Biden doesn’t live up to Christian morality or ethics and now he’s trying to bow out of the voting process by appealing to Scripture for the sake of Biblical integrity? What? 🤔

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