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“The test of a theology is the person it creates.” -Josh Hawkins

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To be Christlike is to be relentlessly merciful.

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Pet peeve: referring to 500 year old doctrinal novelties as “traditional” Christianity.

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“The doctrine of the inerrancy and infallibility of Scripture was created by man when the mediation of Christ became [deemed] insufficient.” TF Torrance

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“If hell is created, it cannot separate you from the love of God. If hell is uncreated, it is God. No created thing thing can separate you from the love of God.” Paul Young

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George MacDonald: “Must we believe that Judas, who repented even to agony could find no mercy in such a God? I think, when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it...” 1/2

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Q: If Christ has made possible the salvation of all, why does he say the gate is narrow and few will find it?

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Coming November

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The Cross, for me, represents the one God I can love, trust, and worship—the one who, in love, became human to bear my wounds—both the wounds I’ve caused and those I’ve suffered—and who, by love, will restore all things and all people.

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5-star Gen. Omar Bradley on the atom and the Sermon on the Mount.

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“Most people are better than their theology. Remember to listen for the murmurs of their hearts and not the foolishness of their minds. These things are often born out of fear, but perfect love drives out fear.” —David Goa

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"A person who seeks God with true devotion shouldn’t be dominated by the literal text, lest he unwittingly receives not God but things appertaining to God; that is, lest he feel a dangerous affection for the words of Scripture instead of for the Logos." —Maximus the Confessor

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Preaching the all-embracing love of God is not capitulation to “the world.” The meta-ideology of ‘the world’ (from theological fundie to cultural progressive) is retribution.

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The left-right matrix is the partisan tribalist delusion. Reject it altogether—renew your mind. Don’t worry about the “other side.” Worry that you still believe in sides, because if you do, you’re still ensnared. Wiggle free first and then help your brother out.

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Thought: if Christians had settled on “There is no retribution in the nature of God,” 90% of deconstruction may have been unnecessary.

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@BrianZahnd My great uncle was tortured for his faith. Actual torture. Limiting assembly during a pandemic is not persecution. That is called loving your neighbour.

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“...I believe that Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing Him with the traitor’s kiss; and I believe He was his Savior still” (George MacDonald). 2/2

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Jesus warning the oppressed not to retaliate against aggressors who outgun them is not naive pacifism. It’s political realism that calculates the net loss of life, property & dignity after the blowback from those more powerful & wicked.

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Defining “sin” as “missing the mark”still misses the mark is we misdefine “the mark” as something like moral perfection rather than loving God wholeheartedly and loving our neighbour as ourselves.

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“Being angry at modern people for losing their faith is like blaming medieval people for catching the plague.” — @BrianZahnd

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The blood sacrifice of Christ did not satisfy God’s appetite for violence. The sacrificial love of Christ satiated God’s thirst for reconciliation.

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“There is not a single chapter in Luke that doesn’t mention a meal or feeding. I love that.” —Julie Canlis

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“Be intensely curious instead of right. Care more for the relationship than the outcome of the conversation.” - @wmpaulyoung

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Following Jesus is hard. E.g., love, forgiveness & compassion are a cross. But as Tolstoy said, if you think that’s hard, the alternative is far harder: try living a lifetime of hatred, resentment and selfishness. Now that is a crushing burden.

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Eternal conscious torment in a divinely created furnace will either be declared a heresy by the end of the century, or more likely, will just consume itself as a ludicrous bygone superstition. But alas, the literalists you will always have with you.

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Predestination: Christ's predetermined love to free all those bound in slavery, to repatriate all those born in exile and welcome home even those who stomped off into alienation, prior to any response on their part.

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History repeated: From 2, 20, 40, 80, 200, 800, 8000, 80,000 years ago. Our addiction to vengeance & violence as the way to peace & justice is the most thoroughly tested & falsified experiment in history. Yet the Jesus Way gets labelled naive & idealistic. It’s just too radical.

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@ErikReed That does not seem to have been the goal of any evangelist in the book of Acts

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@robdelaney Beginning layer of a punk show poster. Obviously.

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“Repent” in original context: “Reorient your LIFE toward the Light of Divine Love.” Implicit: turn from delusional attachments and face the Sunshine until your eyes can adjust and you are transfigured into an agent of light (love) for a just society.

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WHY I AM NOT A UNIVERSALIST (but sound like one) Reflections on David Bentley Hart’s "That All Will Be Sav...

WHY I AM NOT A UNIVERSALIST (but sound like one) Reflections on David Bentley Hart’s "That All...

"For we labor and struggle to this end because we have hoped in a living God who is the savior of all human beings, especially those who have faith." –1 Timothy 4:10

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@danwhitejr One reason I know is that the pastors widening view of grace isn’t tolerated. Heard an example this am

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We pray Lord have mercy, not to turn on God’s mercy tap but to position ourselves beneath its infinite flow.

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To see the Lamb slain is to see God & to see humanity gathered up in him, united to broken humanity and its shadow. Where is Abba? Absent? Angry? Averting his gaze? No! He emerges within our shadow! Abba is found in the very darkness we cast—In my cross & abyss, Thou art there!

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As bad as Adam screwed us up, how much more has Christ raised us up.

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In an interview, when asked him why he thought God would allow children to suffer, the Pope said, "I have no explanation for that. I have my faith and try to love God my Father. But why children suffer, I have no answer for that." Best response.

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what if, for today, all our God-talk were restricted to our own experience and we shared that, knowing our experience can’t be imposed on others (though it could be an invitation to it). Instead of heavy-handed, one-size-fits all straight-jackets.

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The restoration of all things will be accomplished through the mystery of co-suffering love.

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The resurrection of Christ is not an example of life after death but of the destruction of death itself. Father Stephan Freeman

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The Beatitudes of Jesus are a ladder we *descend* by kenosis into cruciformity. In English, we become both more divine and more human as we acquire the grace of humility.

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“The church needs to be led by contemplatives, not reactionaries. Without contemplation, we don’t become elders, we just become old.”—BZ

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If you can’t retweet @BerniceKing this week, don’t quote her dad next week.

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“It’s one thing to say you’re done with the church if you believe deep down that the church will always be there. It’s another thing to imagine a world without the church.” -Brian Zahnd

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I was reading the Bible. Vengeance is apparently not a Christian option.

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Stunning affirmation of the absolute need to open up a redemptive path by @SarahKSilverman

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Dipping my toe into a take on cancel culture in episode 2. #SarahSilvermanPodcast eps 1-5 Here: …

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Twitter brainstorm: how many forms of creative nonviolent resistance can we come up with? Break the mindless “kill or do nothing” binary. Historical examples welcome.

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Two kinds of people: Go home people and Come home people! With ⁦ @MarkAlanLowry ⁩

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Maturity is the ability to hold difference, not to police it.

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@robertjeffress Since ur citing Rev 21-22, note “Her gates shall never be shut” and “the Spirit and Bride say Come, all you who are thirsty.” Misrepresenting Scriprure for political points gets close to #blasphemy

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Deconstruction that leads you to arrogantly imagine ur ‘woke’ & exclude the other you’ve left has certainly misfired.

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Jesus on “what-about-ism”

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Sovereignty of God is not micromanaging control, but goodness, wisdom incarnate.

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“What is real? The sacred presence of Father, Son and Spirit in everyone, everywhere at every time, whether they know it or not.” —Baxter Kruger

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The 2020s shall be marked by Origen’s re-ascendency as the church father who eclipses Augustine. Benedict XVI included him in his church fathers book without critique. In the East, @FrJohnBehr ’s editions will undo & overthrow 15 centuries of misinformation.

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I still cringe every time…

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“There is no leaf in our brokenness that Christ has not overturned, no place in our brokenness beyond his reach.” —C. Baxter Kruger, “Across All Worlds”

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“Loving what is right is very different than hating what is wrong and feeling right about it.” Roy Masters via Lise Struthers

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Whether you celebrate or mourn the US election outcome or don’t care, I hope this memory (from my wedding year), will be a reason for hope rather than hate.

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I support #BLM . I am not a Marxist. Marxists killed Eden’s Opa. I support #BLM because I believe in Christlike empathy for the downtrodden and the restoration of basic human dignity

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@timkellernyc I saw infinite love in his eyes.

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“The states have all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever. If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again." —Mitch McConnell

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Love is so hard to do. But turning from love (othering), leaving the table (alienation) or closing the table (isolation) is not a solution, much less a foundation for a life or a movement. [and yes, love has healthy boundaries].

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@BrianZahnd 1 of my children once told me I was abusing him because he had to make the bed. I offered to report myself to the police & let them take him to safety. My anger came from knowing actual abusees. I feel this when I hear N. American Christians say they are persecuted.

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@shattered4Glory 1. Include listening to God as part of your prayer life. 2. Saturate yourself in the words and acts of Jesus in the four Gospels. 3. Install the Beatitudes in your heart (I memorized and pray them daily) as your furnace of discernment in all things.

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@RandyKnie As a former inerrantist, I was saved from that error by reading the Bible more carefully.

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Kenosis is our theosis. I.e., To be divinized is to be *cruciformed.*

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Orthodoxy in America must beware of being reduced to Eastern Rite Evangelicalism by converts (including me), which might be a good description of the Orthobro phenomenon

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Wilful self-deception that leads to this level of delusion is not accidental. It began with a deliberate rejection of reality when faced with truth. Lord, have mercy.

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Let conservatives ask themselves, what do I seek to conserve? And progressives themselves, is my path really progress? Burning your own house down is neither.

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@BrianZahnd Amen. And to double down: spiritual warfare IS the renunciation of self-will. It IS the exchange of swords & guns for prayers & plowshares (hence “spiritual”).

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Brian Zahnd: “If one wants to believe in an angry, violent, retributive God, one can read the Bible in a way that supports this. Furthermore, one can find quite convincing doctrines to support a hell of eternal conscious torment, if one is inclined to do so. 1/3

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“John Calvin, by tying the place of the dead (hades) to eternal punishment (Gehenna) and then linking this with the punishment inflicted on Christ on the Cross so as to achieve forgiveness, invented the doctrine of penal substitution.”

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Did John Calvin Invent A New Religion? via @ForgingPloughs

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"Brad, what I don't understand is why they're so cruel." -Eugene Peterson. "By this they'll know u r my disciples: ur love..." -JC Jn 13:35

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“Bad theology is pornographic: the imagination of relation witjout the risk of relationship.” Paul Young

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Me: Plans for the day? Jesus: Same as always. Making all things new. You’re invited.

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Last night’s U2 concert Bono says “For the great Eugene Peterson, we dedicate tonight.” Our pastor and messenger has begun on his journey home. The shoutout is at 4:08.

U2 - ONE - live @ Mediolanum Forum Assago - Milano - 15 Ottobre 2018

U2 Performing live @ Mediolanum Forum Assago - Milan - 15 October 2018 - ItalyeXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE TourNext Date:19 Oct 2018 Manchester Arena, Manchester20...

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Researcher: Artifacts show that early church women served as clergy via @ncronline

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In his cry of dereliction, we hear Christ bearing the agony of humanity’s collective alienation, NOT the rejection of his Abba. He enters our alienation in cosuffering love to overcome it through faith in the love of our Abba. (Lazar)

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Big reveal! On Sept. 1, Wm. Paul Young (the Shack) @wmpaulyoung and I will release our co-written novella, "The Pastor: a crisis" in hardcover, ebook & audiobook formats. Teaser and presales here:

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FINALLY: Coming August: "IN: Incarnation & Inclusion, Abba & Lamb" Coming September: "A More Christlike WAY" If you have an existing blog or podcast, email me at bradjersak at gmail for a reviewer's pdf or e-book.

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