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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Southern Baptist Convention, 1915: "So long as there is social inequality, industrial justice or political crime, the kingdom of God is not yet fully come....The Kingdom of God is not a Sunday affair. It must pervade the factory that runs six days a week as well as...
the Sunday morning services?" Why, said the SBC? "Some think of the kingdom of God as narrow, effeminate and sentimental. The exact opposite is true. It is board, masculine, and practical." (1) this shows how things change. Matt 28:18-20 wasn't the focus .amazon.com/Separation-Chu…
(2) Social justice has always been used to drawn men back into the church. The SBC was a social gospel denomination in 1915. What happened? By the 1950s, they were defending Jim Crow. Think about this. Cultural influence really is *that* powerful on influencing religious beliefs.
(oops, that should be a period after "services")

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I'm following about 1600 fraternity chapters for a new book. I may change the book's direction. The amount of suicide(almost weekly) isn't what I expected. Parents, esp. dads, if you have a son in college call/visit him today & do whatever you can to tell him that we need him.
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Al Coda: I did not expect this to blow up but it confirm the fact that white Calvinists refuse to see themselves as a culture. If I said, "Black church culture," people nod. But to say "modern white Calvinist culture" the response is about why I hate white people or Calvinism.
This is what happens when you're the dominant culture in a cocoon and the center of your own conversations. Everything you do/think is the standard. Standards are exempt from analysis and critique. "White evangelicalism" is a culture. It's not a theology. It can generate data.
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The main cause of the vitriol against Du Mez et al is that the TGC, SBC, DG, 9 Marks, Acts 29, Calvinist etc. world never saw itself as a sociological object of critique. There is now an entire academic world focussed on their failures & Reformed men are losing their minds.
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Modern white Calvinists, in their arrogance, conflated their religious culture with “the gospel” itself. To critique their religious culture is somehow equivalent to critiquing Jesus, the gospel, the Bible, etc. It’s unreal!
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Not a racial justice issue but an issue of disadvantage. My story: (1) I left the black church to attend a PCA seminary. Many of my classmates had their home PCA churches cover some tuition. That was impossible for me. I took out loans. (2) Then, I went to Westminster seminary
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