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Dan White Jr.

6 years

Christianity would change overnight if it put down the mantle of defending God and picked up the responsibility of loving enemies.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

Covid is a revealing what the Church is about. Some Churches: "How do we deliver an excellent product that people need every week?" Other Churches: "How do we equip our people for loving their neighbors every week?"

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Dan White Jr.

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3 years

This won't make the news but there are Jewish Christians and Palestinian Christians protesting and praying together right now, arm-and-arm, asking for peace.

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Dan White Jr.

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1 year

Jesus never rebuked the poor for not working hard enough but He did rebuke the rich for not being generous enough.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

A massive crowd gathering around a celebrity Christian is not a movement of God, it's spectacle of consumerism.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

I think Christianity should sit out the Culture Wars. It's really OK if we lose and let someone else win. We gotta ton of really important Jesus stuff to do that has nothing to do with triumphing, ruling, or governing.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

I know it feels like Christianity is under attack, it's not, it's our white-washed religion that's under scrutiny. They are not the same.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

1. Christianity started out in Palestine as a community. 2. Moved to Greece became a philosophy. 3. Went to Rome became an institution. 4. Spread to Europe became a government 5. Came to America became an enterprise. What might it take for us to return to community?

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Dan White Jr.

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3 years

I've had 28 Pastor friends resign this year. Almost all of them are transitioning to a new vocation. What is occurring?

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

No one teaches you in seminary how to forgive congregants for the wounds inflicted that they'll never apologize for.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

The renewal of the church will not start with microphones on stages, it will start with meals around tables.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

The renewal of the church will not start with microphones on stages, it will start with meals around tables.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

I'm convinced the future of the church is small, simple, slow, and super local.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

Reflecting on pastoring for 20 yrs: With a therapist, I cataloged all the folks that have ghosted me (almost 100 over the years). Spend time in their homes, baptize their kids, cry with them in pain, counsel them through crisis. Then vamoosh they're gone. It's a weird job.

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Dan White Jr.

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5 years

Don't sanitize Advent. There were 400 years of waiting after Malachi prophesied about forthcoming justice in the arrival of the Messiah. There are no easy answers as to why God makes us wait for what is good.

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Dan White Jr.

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4 years

Don't sanitize Advent. There were 400 years of waiting after Malachi prophesied about forthcoming justice in the arrival of the Messiah. There are no easy answers as to why God makes us wait.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

In consumer culture a Pastor is: ● A Dynamic Communicator ● A Powerful Visionary ● A Leadership Guru ● A Political Commentator ● A Podcast Creator ● A Marriage Counselor ● A Social Activist ● A Parenting Expert ● A Bedside Chaplain No wonder they burnout.

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Dan White Jr.

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2 years

If you feel Christianity is collapsing in the West, take hope, it's just the cultural and commercial part stripping away and what will be left is Christ and those who long to follow him without all the favor and fanfare.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

I'm convinced the future of the church is small, simple, slow, and super local.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

The debate we are watching is a mirror, it is us, we are seeing our marriages, our relationships, our churches, our social media engagements reenacted on national television.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

I've been a pastor in a non-denominational mega church, an ancient-future liturgical church, and a post-christian missional church. We had the same brick wall we slammed into in every place. Consumerism.

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Dan White Jr.

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3 years

I am meeting Pastor after Pastor that is considering resigning, not because they don't love the Church. They are considering this because their role has become unliveable. The critics and contrarians are dominating their bandwidth and there's no reprieve. They can't get any air.

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Dan White Jr.

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5 years

If you feel Christianity is collapsing, take hope, it's just the commercial part falling away and what will be left is Christ and those who long to follow him into the beauty and brokenness of the world.

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Dan White Jr.

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6 years

The Church is partly in the mess it's in because of overestimating the power of preaching and underestimating the power of discipleship.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

I'm convinced the future of the church is small, simple, slow, and super local.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

Listen, if we have to celebrate Easter in our homes without all the fanfare, you're barely tasting the world most persecuted Christians live in.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

6 years

It's an odd journey. In my 20's I cared so much about good theology. Then in my 30's I was desperate to find my tribe. In my 40's I care less about both and just want to join people doing good in the neighborhood no matter their theology or tribe.

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Dan White Jr.

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2 years

We have oversold the "personal relationship" with Christ. We've unintentionally cultivated a narcissistic, individualistic, self-help imagination for relating with God. In this framework God's mission is an afterthought, community is an addendum, and holiness is "stop sinning".

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Dan White Jr.

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6 years

American Christianity is caught up in the Idolatry of Impact. If it works, lets go with it! If it's big, it's good! If it's dynamic, it's God! Jesus faced three temptations to "make an impact" and instead chose the route of rootedness and faithfulness.

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I've been a pastor in a non-denominational mega church, an ancient-future liturgical church, and a post-christian missional church. We had the same brick wall we slammed into in every place. Consumerism.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

Too many leave behind judgemental Conservativism only to choose angry Progressivism. Let's choose inner healing rather than outer contempt.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

6 years

Being a local Pastor is a constant plunge into loss and rejection. Regularly people come into your life for a season and then leave because you don't meet their expectations. Pay attention to this pain, process it with others, seek healing.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

5 shifts I hope the Church considers making in 2020: 1. CEO leadership to Mutual Multi-voiced Team 2. Worship on Stages to Meals round Tables 3. Crowds Listening to Communities Dialoging 4. Felt-needs Programs to Neighborhood Presence 5. Small Groups to Discipleship pathways

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

There are two types of Christians: those who imitate Jesus and those who are content just to admire him. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

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Christianity does not need political power to be faithful to Jesus, and as a matter of history, every time they gained political power they became unfaithful to Jesus.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

Let's normalize saying "I don't really know, I've not formed an opinion on that."

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

When the Church is a movement!

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

The early Christian's did not have a "master plan for evangelism", their radical unselfish love for each other and for their enemies was their evangelism.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

Did a straw poll on my book tour (13 cities) with 829 folks in 2019: 76% of those who identified as Progressive see "loving enemies" as complicity w/ injustice 78% of those who identified as Conservative see "loving enemies" as compromise w/ immorality Think we got a problem?

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

Fighting a culture war was never the commission given to the Church. Creating a countercultural community—now that's a different story.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

The next Reformation is rumbling just below the surface and it will disrupt the Sunday-centric, consumer-oriented, moral-political project of Evangelicalism.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

Jesus never rebuked the poor for not working hard enough but He did rebuke the rich for not being generous enough.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

American Christianity is caught up in the Idolatry of Impact. If it works, lets go with it! If it's big, it's good! If it's dynamic, it's God! Jesus faced three temptations to "make an impact" and instead chose the rooted route.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

Today Preston Sprinkle asked me what is the #1 challenge I'm seeing in the Church. Answer: the underdeveloped emotional maturity of Leaders. They've got preaching skills, vision casting skills, nunchuck skills but few skills on leading with compassion rather than control.

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@danwhitejr

5 years

Church Planting 101: You can have a great band, 50K in the bank, a compelling vision, snazzy website, preaching skillz, and a great location BUT if you're emotionally immature you're gonna hurt someone.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

I keep hearing stories of Pastors shocked their congregants support Trumpism. They preached the Bible and God's love for years and can't believe what's being revealed. Sermon-centric Church life is a big part of the problem. It's not doing the discipleship work you think it is.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

Christian's do not need political power to be faithful to Jesus and as matter of history every time they gained political power they became unfaithful to Jesus.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

I meet so many ministry leaders with a passion for preaching. I meet very few with a passion for discipleship. Hence the predicament we are in.

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@danwhitejr

5 years

Jesus never rebuked the poor for not working hard enough but He did rebuke the rich for not being generous enough.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

The Christian Right is quick to name individual sin but rarely systemic sin against humanity. The Christian Left rarely speaks to personal immorality if you possess their accepted social values. The two desperately need to learn from one another.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

Reflecting on pastoring for 25 yrs: With a therapist, I cataloged all the folks that ghosted me (almost 100 over the yrs). Spend time in their homes, baptize their kids, cry with them in tragedy, counsel them through crisis. Then vamoosh they're gone. It's a painful calling.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

I've never understood why white Christians fight confessing "I am a Racist" when key to the Gospel is the humble confession "I am a Sinner". Unless "sinner" is just an abstract formless cliche.

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Dan White Jr.

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3 years

I'm still healing. Did the emotional math: Invitations to dinner/coffee 3 to 4 times a yr, over a 20 yr span, only to be blindsided that I'm a disappointment as a Pastor and Person gives you social anxiety that every overture to connect is a set up to be attacked verbally.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

4 years

If this pandemic takes the Pulpit away from Christianity maybe we'll be forced to take Discipleship seriously.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

My suggestions for Killing Celebrity Church & Pastor Culture: A Church should be no larger than 150. Instead of growing larger, send more out. Stop building notoriety off of Sermon Podcasts. No Lead/Senior Pastor, only Polycentric Pastoral Teams. No Church franchising.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

I was hurt inside the Church and then I was hurt outside the Church and then I realized people hurt people.

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@danwhitejr

2 years

The next Reformation is rumbling just below the surface and it is overturning the Sunday-centric, consumer-oriented, celebrity-driven, moral-political project of Evangelicalism.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

If Jesus doesn't transform the way you relate with your enemies, then its not Jesus you're following.

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Dan White Jr.

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4 years

Hate to break it to you but the Constitution is not a God-inspired document. There is only one of those.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

It's almost 2020 and Wayne Grudem is making the rounds for saying silly things. 20 years ago I was a senior in Bible College and turned in a final paper that said "...Grudem's theology worships a God that looks like Zeus, not a God that looks like Jesus." I got a D-

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

A church built through consumer strategies will have a culture that becomes transactional rather than covenantal.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

Your heart can both rejoice at justice for George Floyd and can ache for Derek Chauvin to know the grace of God.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

Bad Churches and Bad Pastors get all the press (they do exist) but in almost every neighborhood there is a small, simple, unsexy gathering of Jesus-followers that will never make headlines.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

Let's normalize saying "I can't say, I have not formed an opinion on that yet."

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

Narrative theology: women lead, shepherd, and preach all over the scriptures. Systematic theology: there's a chapter and verse that says women should stay silent. The different ways we read the text.

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Dan White Jr.

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2 years

Most seminaries don't disciple people, they inform people. Most Bible studies don't disciple people, they inform people. Most sermons don't disciple people, they inform people. Lots of information—very little discipleship.

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Dan White Jr.

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2 years

Jesus washed the feet of a doubter, a denier, and a betrayer. The least we can do is be kind to those we disagree with.

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Dan White Jr.

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Most people don't live their theology, they live out of their fears and project them onto theology.

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Dan White Jr.

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2 years

The Early Church faced many problems none of them related to not feeling moved in worship, not being fed by the sermon, and not having amazing kids programming.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

6 years

I tell Church Planters all the time "if you're pissed off at the Church, don't plant right now". ● Don't plant from wounds ● You'll hurt people, & blame them ● Go to a Counselor ● Sit still in liminal space ● Listen to your neighborhood ● Reflect, cry, and heal

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Dan White Jr.

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2 years

Church Planters pay attention, the only things that grow fast are weeds, mold and fungus. Embrace slow.

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@danwhitejr

4 years

Being a Pastor is a constant plunge into loss and rejection. Regularly people come into your life and then leave because you don’t meet their expectations. Pay attention to this pain and process it with others.

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5 years

● 72% of Progressives only have Progressive friends. ● 78% of Conservatives only have Conservative friends. No wonder we hate each other, we're not near each other. Befriend your enemies, change 2020!

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2 years

I'm not all that interested in future church trends or new growth techniques. For 2000 years, the most relevant church has always been the one gathering around a table, caring for the neighborhood, following the words and ways of Jesus.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

The Religious Right had their day in power. Now the Religious Left will have theirs. Where is the Religion that turns away power?

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

I'm not all that interested in future church trends or new growth techniques. For 2000 years, the most relevant church has always been the one gathering around a table, caring for the neighborhood, following the words and ways of Jesus.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

If Satan tempted you in the Wilderness with the power to take down your political enemies and enact your social agenda, would you take it? Jesus didn't.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

1 year

Listen, I love a good sermon but we've overestimated Preaching's ability to change people. I love a well produced podcast but we're overestimating it's ability to impact people. I wish we didn't underestimate on-the-ground discipleship's power to transform everything.

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@danwhitejr

4 years

The next Reformation is rumbling just below the surface and it will overturn the Sunday-centric, consumer-oriented, celebrity-driven, moral-political project of Evangelicalism.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

The Church has tried to do so much of it's mission from the stage. We need a break from the stage in order to reorient us to the streets.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

If you feel Christianity is collapsing, take hope, it's just the commercial part falling away and what will be left is Christ and those who long to follow him into the beauty and brokenness of the world.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

I experienced deconstruction in 2007, it compelled me to turn down a Lead Pastor job. I did not want to hold a microphone while in turmoil. I needed wilderness, I found Jesus in obscurity. With all the de-cluttering I found something simple, beautiful, ancient, & worth my life.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

Don't confuse worshiptainment for a move of the Holy Spirit.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

5 years

After 20 yrs, I had to take a break from 'being a local Pastor' cause my soul was tired from constant output, my nerves were shot from constant criticism, and my physical body was hurting from being a constant scapegoat. No nap was going to fix it.

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I've watched it a hundred times. A family starts attending a missional church and immediately loves it's simplicity, shared-life in community, and presence in the neighborhood. BUT they haven't dealt w/ their Consumerism yet. There's a detox process they need to undergo. 1/2

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@danwhitejr

3 years

When will the age of church oriented around a prolific communicator and a stage be over? When will the age of church oriented around presence at the table and a neighborhood begin?

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

2 years

Listen, the reason Jordan Peterson (and every other Youtube Celebrity) is so popular with Christians is because the Church by and large doesn't do discipleship.

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Dan White Jr.

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4 years

You don't need brick and mortar to worship in spirit and truth.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

6 years

Preaching Re-imagined: 1. Don't prep solo, practice a group hermeneutic. 2. Don't preach monological, preach dialogical. 3. Don't communicate points, communicate story. 4. Don't apply to individuals, apply to a community. 5. Don't preach self-help, preach submission to the King.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

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I'm convinced the future of the church is small, simple, slow, and super local.

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Dan White Jr.

@danwhitejr

3 years

Simone Biles taught us today that 'embracing your limits' might take more strength than superseding your limits.

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@danwhitejr

4 years

Fighting a culture war was never the commission given to the Church. Creating a countercultural community—now that's a different story.

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Consumerism turned the Church into a service provider: "I want good preaching" "I want amazing worship" "I want great kid's programs" Would we go to Church if it was just a bunch of ragamuffin Jesus-followers gathering around a table, trying to love God and love neighbors?

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Dan White Jr.

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4 years

I don't typically like to namedrop but in my line of work (coaching Church Planters) I run into alot of Acts 29 folks. Acts 29 (intentionally or unintentionally) shaped legions of young men to imitate the control & charisma of it's leaders. It's created a wake of damage.

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Dan White Jr.

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I'm not Reformed, but I can appreciate their love for Scripture. I'm not Progressive, but I can appreciate their passion for equity. I'm not Conservative, but I can appreciate their respect for morality. It's OK to appreciate others you disagree with.

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If a Church, for a full year, gathered around reading deeply, meditating on, and applying the SERMON ON THE MOUNT—it would renovate their entire existance together.

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2 years

Research is NOT Googling, watching Youtube clips, and perusing a couple blogs.

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Dan White Jr.

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7 years

Don't sanitize Advent. There were 400 years of silence after Malachi prophesied about forthcoming justice in the arrival of the Messiah. There are no easy answers as to why God makes us wait.

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Gentleness, kindness, hospitality, and tenderness are not feminine or masculine qualities, they are Christ-like qualities.

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It is heresy to trade loving God and loving others for loving America and loving our own and calling it Christian.

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