@faboIus @danitreweek @CBMWorg It came across to me as a subset of single men: those specific caricatures.
I would agree alongside OP, my reasoning would be the fixation upon poor examples often because of a lack in ability to establish proper examples even though the article tries to get around to it.
@faboIus @danitreweek @CBMWorg The introduction rather establishes the target audience, probably none of the people in the comments, a conversation between two persons of name about means and influence.
It doesn't address my household at all, but it might address quite a few.
Jun 21 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
My family's sanctification has been dynamic and high tempo over the last 5 years, our former selves being unable to recognize our current selves and surely vice versa.
When it began, we only had one word of testimony and that was knowing what we had done was called repentance.
Previously we were taught a false definition of this.
The first 6 months there was sort of a calm, we were completely alone and didn't know where to go apart from waiting for our next instruction; we did wait dependently, expectantly, and faithfully.
Then He started speaking.
Jun 21 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
@faboIus @JayTibbs23 He wrote some youth oriented books that helped bridge biblical perspective with modernity
He created the "Christian thriller" genre
"This present darkness" & "Piercing the darkness" are sequential & realize the obvious workings of evil forces/agents most would prefer to dismiss
@faboIus @JayTibbs23 "Prophet" is not sequential or part of the same literary universe, but carries a lot of the same mechanisms and conveys the 'shock and awe' of being immediately connected with spiritual stimuli those who have actually been born again will immediately recognize.
Jun 20 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
"What shall be done unto the man whom the King delighteth to honour?"
Because of his pride, Haman thought it was himself to be honored; this, notwithstanding the curse of his ancestry
He was also cursing/despising the hidden/true identity of the Bride in whom the King delights.
If you are *guessing* it is you whom the King intends to honor, you are not the bride.
Esther received her favor directly from the King, by virtue of her purity and humility in complete submission to Him.
Haman guessed at his own preeminence, in his own council.
Oops.
Jun 14 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I've been resisting a lengthy thread on the mal-intention of language & manipulative/opportunistic usage of terms within the institutions, namely: brother.
I've been resisting, because there is a small percentage of people out there who genuinely use the term affectionately.
Sometimes they use it instinctively while they are being sanctified from the old ways and it doesn't come with baggage.
What started off on the playground as an innocent:
I like you, do you like me back, can we be friends?"
is often in adulthood communicated by brotherhood.
May 18 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Do you remember when your pastor gave you the gospel about the New Covenant mentioned in Jeremiah 31, where no longer does God use intermediaries but He teaches you Himself, you received it with gladness and became a disciple of Jesus?
This, absent the need for a giant extension of the pagan roman empire manifested as the institutional Church Protestant/Catholic nondescript?
And people knew of your shared paternity by way of doing the will of God, also themselves having the unction?
May 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It is easy to create anecdotes from our own rationalizations & expect God to *ascend to them, it is the only thing those-without are capable of
You can't fear what you don't know, fear is the introduction, you can't be a servant if you don't fear & Sons are promoted from within.
The old 'if I had a nickel' for every time someone said "it seems to me that God, therefore God is..."
They completely lack the wherewithal to realize what they are doing is molding an image that only exists because they created it, making themselves the *creator* of God.
May 16 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
"Legalist" is a slur & slander most often used by legalists who would otherwise assert they are furthest from it.
Legalism, nefarious type, does not describe an individual who is ordered and otherwise obedient to Authority, but describes a manner in which people domineer others.
The first strike phenomenon, whereby the first to leverage or otherwise insinuate a character defamation seems relatively immune to the same assault even if more deserving, is strong here & serves both as red herring & asymmetrical assault to place opponent in defensive posture.
May 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I see pastors and parishioners alike say slack-jawed things that couldn't be further from the Image of God, all with thunderous applause and community approval.
I see people burning incense to the bronze snake, worshiping books, and attending high places while calling it Church.
It took a little while, but I finally get it:
That is Christianity but it's not me. Don't get me wrong, over 35 years in that institution and this realization does bring about some cognitive dissonance between what I now know and formerly practiced.
