I said this back when JD Greear was fussing about Tucker Carlson.
We are in a cultural revolution.
Pastor, the reason your members are discipled more by Carlson than you is because you abandoned the culture war, and thus, in a real significant way, abandoned them.
Same reason your men flocked to Jordan Peterson to learn about gender distinctions and masculinity.
You over-spiritualized and nuanced the crap out out of it, then refused to even address gender distinctions from nature.
Abandoned again.
Thus they went to someone who did.
What's worse, your members are out here in the midst of this revolution losing jobs, fielding hate, being denied services and you join the chorus of the mob calling for their heads.
You echoe the mob's vicious and injurious slander.
Now not just abandoned, but betrayed.
Hate the "discernment ministries" all you want but the reality is the LORD makes a habit of raising voices from stones in the face of silence.
If you were being a real pastor, discernment ministries, whether right or wrong, wouldn't be a thing. They wouldn't stand a chance.
Many of you are taking council.
Trying to figure out what to do about Carlson, Peterson, and all these discernment ministries.
Maybe you should take Gamaliel's advice and cool your jets, lest you be found to be striving against God.
Or worse,
Crying out no king but Caeser!
I'm done.
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Perspective for those fighting denominational rot.
Not only do conservatives breed more, but they also disciple more effectively.
They lose less of their children to the spirit of the age because they model an uncompromising posture.
So, it is true that having and discipling children is a huge part of winning the culture war, it is also true that we will retake a predominate role in the direction of the Church much faster and long before we take over the culture.
Which means, whatever the short term battles result in, we cannot lose the war for the church.
Apart from repentance and reformation, the compromisers with the spirit of the age will fall away, or their children will.
One clear defining characteristics of CRT is redefining white supremacy beyond the traditional definition of the belief that white people are superior.
It extends to any opposition of the assertions of CRT.
It can go further to mean support of Nationalism, enforcing immigration laws, tough on crime initiatives, ect.
Basically the term "white supremacy," like everything else in post-modernland, can mean anything the political need of the hour calls for.
So @gavinortlund has an obligation to clearly define what he means when he accuses the church of "white supremacy" and give a specific example of it so that it may be cross-examined and addressed.
To not do this is to behave like the accuser of the brethren, and a vicious wolf.
The reason they won't give specifics is that specifics give us something of substance to debate, thus cross-examine, and thereby discover his premise and motive.
He doesn't have any examples of people advocating that white people are superior. The traditional definition.
So...
What we will find out is that all his belly-aching about white supremacy is really just people opposing CRT and elements of CRT like a belief in widespread systemic racism or standpoint epistemology.
That's what specific accusations would expose if he made them.
@DannySlavich is reading his own bias into the scriptural narrative as if he was casting a play.
Historically, the Sadducees would have been viewed as a more liberal party to the Pharisees, having denied the supernatural outright and the inspiration of much of the Old Testament.
Jesus actually rebukes the Sadducees like a fundamentalist.
Authority of Scripture ✔
Rebuke natural materialism ✔
The term "conservative" requires an object for it's meaning. In regards to Scripture and worldview Jesus is clearly a conservative.
So I'm not going to retweet him cause it's overkill at this point, and a great many people are responding to and rebuking him over it, but Tim Keller for the past few days has been beclowning himself in an attempt to justify Democrat support as it relates to abortion.
It's gotten pretty bad and he's getting fairly criticized for it.
Here's what is happening with him, and in a large part, a lot of guys that have been influenced by him.
These churches are finding out they had a false sense of unity and it's burning at both ends because believers and progressives are becoming increasingly irreconcilable while the third-way, above the fray, middle ground approach is quickly running out of real estate.
I'm just an ordinary non-college-educated laymen with an ordinary menial job and an ordinary family.
I'm not a scholar nor do I pretend to be. I regularly punch above my weight class. I have grown and am growing still in my understanding.
That being said, long ago, even when I didn't understand everything that was happening or how to articulate a potent response to it I knew everything I loved was being threatened by a culture of progressive deconstruction, including the evangelical church.
One thing that benefited me greatly early on was the teachings of Dr. Greg Bahnsen. Specifically his teachings on "the myth of neutrality" and "pushing the antithesis."
This, long ago, conditioned me for a posture of being on offense and advancing on the enemy.