Periodic reminder: if you have 1689 in your profile and can’t behave publicly in a way that is edifying and done out of love, you aren’t truly 1689
#KindConfessionalism
Apparently some people need to hear this: If a man cheats on his wife, it is 100% his fault. Not partially his wife's for "not meeting his needs" Not the woman he cheated with for whatever she was wearing, not being on the conference circuit. 1/3
That's the world we live in. Men, It's YOUR responsibility to restrain yourself. Not anyone else's; that's part of being a leader. I'm sick of men who want to be the leader of their home and their wife to submit to them blame shifting and excusing their sin. 3/3
Even if all these circumstances had been ideal, he had a heart issue that wasn't addressed and it would have manifested itself eventually. Yeah, sometimes women wear revealing clothing, Sometimes you are away on business away from your wife and temptations will be present 2/3
Doug Wilson getting skewered on here by the very group of guys he helped create is one of the craziest things I’ve seen in a while. Although it was predictable.
Question I've often had to answer from young dudes: How do I lead my girlfriend well?
My answer: you don't. You haven't earned the privilege to lead yet and she is under no obligation to follow you.
@dalepartridge
Nah, this is legalism. Christian parents have the freedom and responsibility to evaluate each child’s unique needs, each school and each university. Not every school is the same. Not every child is the same.
My trajectory on Doug Wilson
1. Big fan
2. “Well, not so sure about what he said there, but he has some helpful things to say”
3. “Um, wow. No thank you.”
4. “Yikes, That’s cult like behavior”
5. “Dangerous. Avoid”
Doug Wilson is peddling a form of prosperity gospel:
Buy all my stuff, work the formula, and you too will have a family with no apostates. And of course if anyone *does* leave the faith it’s because *you* didn’t work the formula right.
Mark and avoid.
What if what's going on with
@BethMooreLPM
and
@JohnMacArthur
;
@KSPrior
going to
@SEBTS
and whether or not Kanye is really a christian are things that God has under control and he has given us other things that we should be focusing on?
Complementarian Leaders:Until you start listening to these stories, taking them seriously and leading to change the systems that enable them, no one is going to take your whining about Beth Moore and Chicken Little squawking about "liberal drift" seriously. And they shouldn't 1/
I don’t even know where to begin with what we need to learn from this situation with Josh Duggar. If you haven’t paid attention to updates, you should, because it is a glaring example of the problems we have in our legal system, and especially in conservative culture.
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A decade ago, I was sharing Doug Wilson quotes on FB and Twitter. My mind changed largely because of the people who were patient with me, not the ones who attacked me.
A reminder that everyone is in progress and it is the kindness of God that leads to repentance.
This perspective from Piper is worth pondering. Preachers, what should be the dominant emotion people walk away with from your sermons? It should not be rage against the culture. It should be trust in the sovereignty of God and a sober and cheerful readiness to embrace suffering.
Agree or disagree with him, the rapidity with which some Christians who were once fans of Alistair Begg are now willing to anathematizing him should cause reflection
Hot take: no one really likes s’mores. They aren’t good, they are messy, too much trouble to make and they never live up to what they promise. It’s only the idea of s’mores that people like.
@AnthonyJamesP1
Yeah. That was my post. It is 100% his responsibility if he cheats, he can’t blame anyone else. That doesn’t mean others didn’t sin as well
Not sure if I have a poorly curated feed, or if twitter is just this way, but I need more positive folks to follow; reading the incessant critiquing and bashing of fellow Christians isn't healthy.
Any recommendations of who else I should be following?
A Christian twitter Reminder:
Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to EVERYONE..
YES
“For Basham (and many in her tribe), it seems that if you position yourself that way—as a missionary seeking to win people rather than a culture warrior championing Republican politicians—then you are a liberal, no matter what you believe or how clearly you state it.”
Hey all you dudes asking how to lead your wife and reading and listening to all the wrong people, here is my advice: spend less time worrying about how to make your wife follow and submit to you and more time worrying about becoming the kind of man others would want to follow.
🧵Scripture has a few things to say about Justice and defending the weak and oppressed. We REALLY don't want to be on the wrong side of these:
“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.” (Psalm 82:3 NIV) 1/
There aren't husband or wife specific jobs in the home. You should be able to cook, do the dishes, do laundry and vacuum the floors. This doesn't mean you are less manly, it means your masculinity isn't threatened by serving your family.
No. I’ve never had to “protect my son “ from his mother anymore than she has had to protect my daughter from me. Parents should work together to be unified and often defer to one another’s wisdom for how to parent their sons and daughters. We are a team, not adversaries.
There are times when a father must protect his sons from their mother:
"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'" ~ H. Killebrew
Reminder: If you spend most of your time attacking and mocking other Christians instead being a minister of reconciliation, you are aligning yourself with the accuser of the brethren and not Christ.
The Church at Risk: Megan Basham’s Reckless Rhetoric and the Perils of Trumpism
A *Satirical* Saturday Newsletter by Russell French
I come to you in what can only be described as the most dire hour for the church. Megan Basham’s *Shepherd's For Sale* has arrived, and it’s
Tell me you've never met a female missionary, or heard of Corie Ten Boom, Edith Stein etc without telling me.
Good grief, most of these women have more courage in their little finger than the vast majority of men who try to defend complementarianism based on women being inferior
The pastorate is a masculine office. Here’s why.
Pastors who speak the truth of scripture boldly are putting themselves in harm’s way for the sake of God's people. Godly pastors run towards this danger, not away from it, because that’s how you protect the sheep.
A faithful
Discernment bro tweet formula:
Pick 2nd tier doctrine.
Elevate to 1st tier.
Narrowly define the doctrine.
Imply or state that people or groups that do not adhere to narrowly defined doctrine as dangerous, a “threat to the gospel” or part of the downgrade of your tribe. 1/2
Am I the only one this happens to? You pull up twitter and see something interesting, start reading it and the timeline refreshes or something and you loose the tweet completely and can't find it again?
I appreciate all the 2015-2023 theological journeys. But if you haven’t been settled on position a since 2015, you are still on a journey and aren’t ready to be a teacher or instruct others in doctrine
Of course this is obviously bad as many have pointed out, but it reveals a deeper issue: how they view God, as one who would punish us for not having the correct behavior.
At best, Gavin doesn’t understand the war we are in. If he did, he would completely understand why
@megbasham
used him as the example she did. But his bambi-in-the-headlights refusal to understand, while warning against the danger of “fundamentalism,” suggests it’s far worse.
"It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentals and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it."
Billy Graham, Parade Magazine, 1981.
Reminder to self: “I’m not in the sbc, so I will not get involved”
“I’m not in the sbc, so I will not get involved”
“I’m not in the sbc, so I will not get involved”
Me:*reads sbc twitter*
@WomnOfValor
They are weak and insecure and they are broadcasting it. It makes them feel strong and in control. Real strong men aren’t bothered by strong intelligent wives that might know more than them about some things.
There is a new "Christian" teaching going around that says sympathy is a "biblical" emotion while empathy is not. I would remind those teaching this nonsense that eating locusts is a biblical diet while hamburgers are not...1/2
@JulesDiner
@realgirl_fieri
A wise pastor once told us "your kids aren't keeping you from what else you should be doing, taking care of them
and focusing on them IS what you should be doing"
Dear mom who has decided to go through childbirth with anesthesia, feed their baby formula, send their kids to school and work outside of the home, those things don't make you less spiritual or a worse mother than those who go through natural childbirth 1/2
This tweet has caused quite a stir, and to be fair, it could be more clear. But I think if most people having the vapors over it read this with a modicum of charity, it should be clear that he's specifically addressing consumerism; there is nothing really to disagree with here.
Frustrated and considering leaving Church X for Church Y?
Let me go ahead and burst the bubble for you—you’re going to find even more reasons to be disappointed at Y than you did at X.
Your contentment at your church is not about the church. It’s about you.
Dig in and serve.
Why is Christian twitter so often like high school all over again? With the bullies and the cool kids table and the gossip and the constant looking for affirmation from others? I'm prone to it to. Let's all try to be better folks.
Twitter can be a cesspool, but these guys make it a better place by reminding me of these things over and over. Cool that they showed up together on my timeline.
@martyduren
@realmattcarr
We don’t need to sacrifice orthodox Christian doctrine to pursue racial equality among people and within institutions and structures.
Racial equality is orthodox Christian doctrine.
One of the things I love about the muppets Christmas Carol is Michael Caine is playing Scrooge as if it’s as serious as any role he’s ever played, but his supporting actors are…..the muppets
Seeing how some men I have listened to, read and respected for years behave on twitter has been one of the most eye opening and disappointing things I’ve ever experienced. But it is a constant reminder for me to watch myself and redirect my devotion and loyalty where it belongs.
“The left-leaning slope subtracts from Scripture.The right-leaning slope adds to Scripture. Both create division in Christ’s Church, and both invite the Lord’s displeasure and judgment." -
@scottsauls
I don’t understand DW’s motivation for pushing this narrative. Even if we granted, or it could be demonstrated that it was wrong to end slavery with the civil war, so what? It’s over. It happened. What purpose is there in arguing the point? I must be missing something.
Douglas Wilson:
-Human slavery ended peaceably everywhere in the world except for US
-“we killed” 600K to “do it”
-the war established racial animosities
-killing to “solve” the slave issue departed from Apostle Paul’s way
@conservmillen
I don’t think it is possible for me to care less that I will never see another ad like this in my life. Try as I may, I can’t find a charitable way to read this tweet.
Bonus if the protection of the doctrine depends on men being “more manly” by adopting various culturally influenced ideas of masculinity or if it needs protection from all the women who are determined to undermine it.
I've sat through several of these as a kid where they played clips from the rock and roll music and explained how evil it was. I'm thankful for those meetings because it introduced me to some amazing music that I wouldn't have known about otherwise.
Dear
@RScottClark
, I appreciate your work brother. I read and share your resources often. I'm glad you clarified, because it often sounds like you think we are bad people. But, respectfully it seems as if you think, we just don't understand your position, 1/
Dear Baptist,
Shawnie is an ex-Baptist (as am I) and she makes an excellent point. I'm not saying that you're a bad person or that Baptists are bad. I'm distinguishing between two distinct traditions.
It’s mornings like this when I sit in my chair and my wife makes me breakfast and brings me coffee that I know that I’m winning at complementarianism.
Also, she isn’t on twitter, so please don’t show this to her.
Dear high profile male SBC leaders: Since some of you are very concerned about the slippery slope to egalitarianism and liberalism, you might consider that your silence about abuse doesn't encourage people to embrace complementarianism.