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Jan 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Some of y’all don’t understand how doctrinal control works. When you have people you know deeply love & highly esteem Scripture & want with all their hearts to live by it, you conflate your interpretation of Scripture with inerrancy of Scripture and you’ve got them in your palm.
You need to know something &, if someone says differently, they’re lying. I love Scripture with everything in me. I have not cooled off 1 degree from it. My entire ministry has existed & still exists to encourage people to come to know & love Jesus through the study of Scripture.
But what has become startlingly clear to me in recent years is that our interpretations can have a whole lot more to do with our agendas than our faithful exegesis. AND that sometimes secondary matters shift into primary matters because the gatekeepers fear a loss of control.
May Jesus help us all and have mercy on those of us who teach, preach or speak. It is a fearsome thing.

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Thinking this morning as I was looking forward to church & taking Christmas cards for some new friends (i still dearly love my old friends) how we think sometimes after a death—my own in this case but I’ll not try to explain right now)—that we never really will be happy again.
We’ll survive perhaps but forever mourn the loss of our old lives & never freely laugh the same way as before. This’ll sound weird but I don’t want to give up the pain because I don’t want to give up a past so precious to me but I just wanted to be happy in a church family again.
I know nothing rings any more trite to many than the word happiness as it’s often distinguished in our circles from joy. So, I’ll be boldly trite then. I wish happiness for each of you. A Jesus kind of happiness. A hard hard belly laugh. A sense that maybe you won’t just survive.
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Y’all remember me saying a few weeks ago that Keith & I started attending a small liturgical church in early June? I got to teach at my new church today for the first time. 2 classes. One on how to teach a Bible study and one on biblical narrative to about 25 (wonderful) people.
Can’t put into words how much it means to me. They’ve opened their arms to us with such Christlike affections. I’m overwhelmed by Christ’s kindness. He does not leave us to languish or to just free fall. I’ve been so blessed to be a member of the most wonderful churches. Deeply
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My reading this AM was Daniel 3, a story many of us have known since childhood Sunday school. King Neb builds an idol. Commands all to bow down & worship it. The music plays & the landscape is carpeted in men, women, children, nobles & commoners crouched down before the image.
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