“The one who says, ‘I have come to know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
-1 John 2:4
The good news of the gospel, however, is that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—including LGBTQ+ sinners! Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, and he was raised three days later to give us eternal life.
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Any sinner—no matter what they’ve done—can be connected to Christ’s saving work by repenting from sin and believing in the gospel (Mark 1:15).
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“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
-Matthew 11:28-30
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No Christian’s ministry is so vital that they have transcended the need and the command to be vitally connected to a local church.
If you are not so connected, all is not well with you—no matter how successful you think your ministry is.
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“Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.”
-Hebrews 10:24-25
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Being a member of a local church is not a cure-all. People sin in grievous ways even in the best of churches.
Nevertheless, real and vital connection to a local church should be a threshold requirement of any Christian’s ministry.
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“To see classics the way Padilla sees it means breaking the mirror; it means condemning the classical legacy as one of the most harmful stories we’ve told ourselves.”
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“Classics and whiteness are the bones and sinew of the same body; they grew strong together, and they may have to die together.”
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Just reading a biblical scholar arguing that God's command for Israel to destroy the Canaanites cannot be excused or justified. In other words, God was WRONG in Deut. 20:16, and the Israelites were WRONG to obey Him.
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I'm not going to explain the ethics of the conquest of the Holy Land in a twitter thread. Rest assured, however, that Christianity does account for it. Even though our understanding is often very difficult for modern readers, it is coherent. E.g., ca.thegospelcoalition.org/columns/ad-fon…
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One thing I will point out, however. Christian theology takes it as axiomatic that God is good. He never does anything wrong. If your explanation of the conquest of Canaan begins with "we cannot excuse or justify" what God has done, you are no longer doing CHRISTIAN theology.
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“For most of human history, after all, families across the Western world were defined in largely biblical terms: one man, one woman, with children conceived through sex and sanctified by marriage. Everyone else was just a bastard.”
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“I.V.G. could allow individuals like our fictional Anna and Nicole to manufacture their own eggs and sperm... enabling more than two people to create a child together. And in the process, our basic notion of families is liable to get upended as well.”
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“If the techniques of I.V.G. prove feasible, therefore... A single woman, for example, might mix her egg with sperm fashioned from the genetic material of her two best male friends; the resulting child would have three genetic parents.”
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