I am not my own. Saved by Jesus. Husband to Sarah; Dad to Reuben & Kenan; Pastor - Gracemount Community Church; @20schemes; @CPFC fan; @JamTarts chaplain.
Jan 21, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Quoting @mez1972 at length in this 🧵 simply because the quote was just edited out of an article I wrote for a magazine...
‘[Here’s] how almost every middle-class Christian child is raised. Education and career. Anything else is madness. And all we have produced is a theologically conservative, spiritually-neutered generation of believers who’ve been convinced to water down the hard sayings of Jesus.
Apr 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Excited to chat with our new deacons at GCC this afternoon about what their role looks like in our wee church.
Here's the framework we're working through:
1 Timothy 1:12-17 & 3:1-16
Ministry by God’s mercy.
Examples of God’s grace
to become examples to God’s church.
Jul 9, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Re-reading some of Urban Harvest tonight by Joslin Roy, especially on Youth Work. Mental how perceptive a book it was, how almost prophetic it's been since it was written, and how the church has failed to learn many of it's lessons. Here's some snippets worth considering:
‘For all the dedication of godly Sunday School teachers over many years, it appears that much of that effort was like pouring water into a badly holed bucket or, to be more biblical, like trying to catch fish with some badly torn gospel nets...