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Tyler Campbell

3 years

God is love. And his justice flows out of his love. So when we are filled with the love of God, our hearts should desire justice just like he does. We should be grieved at injustice just like he is. Love demands it.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

🧵 When missionaries experience the global church and return to American evangelicalism, it is often extremely difficult to reconcile the idea that the two are more than tangentially related. 1/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

A thought I can't shake: what if our church gatherings are too expensive for the poor to join us? What if they can't drive to our events in the suburbs? What if they can afford the right clothes to feel accepted? What if they can't afford to take off work for camps & conferences?

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

5 months

So it turns out that white conservatives are, in fact, ok with destroying statues that go against their views. Let the reader understand.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

Wait until he hears about what Jesus did...

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

If you are white and you wonder whether or not white supremacy is really a thing, start opposing it and you'll find your answer really quickly.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

The "he didn't preach the gospel" response to Stephen Colbert's public witness reveals a short-sightedness in evangelicalism that reduces the gospel to mental assent to a set of doctrines instead of the life-changing, life-giving work of Jesus in all aspects of our lives.

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

🧵One of the key ideas of Christian Nationalism is that America was established as a Christian nation, and this allowed God to bless America. Therefore, if America continues to follow God, God will continue to bless America. 1/

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

The church in America would do well to stop thinking of herself as the gatekeepers to orthodox faith and begin looking to our brothers and sisters around the world who barely recognize our practical applications as expressions of the same faith. /End

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

Christian Nationalism is an attempt to regulate society to the point that Christians no longer need to live by faith.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

In America today, one of the best ways to weed out those who are unable to humbly adapt to a foreign culture would be to have a mask expectation at missionary orientation. Those who refuse to wear one are not ready to go.

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

It would be far better for Christians to strive to look like Christ and lose their country than to strive to keep their country and cease to look like Christ. "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?" - Mark 8:36

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Tyler Campbell

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1 year

@RevKevDeYoung You have written a lot about the nuclear family. You realize that antebellum slavery was anti-nuclear-family, right? They actually ripped families apart and sold them away for profit? Perhaps your views would be a bit different if that had been your family history?

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

They have experienced the faith of a marginalized people who have little to no control over the culture only to return and find Christians constantly warring against the culture. 2/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

A reminder: if you hear someone using "woke" as a pejorative, they are already arguing in bad faith.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

8 days

This is saying the quiet parts out loud. Most wouldn't say it this blatantly, but there is an underlying sentiment in US nostalgia that effectively believes this. Yet it's pure xenophobia. The only way you could consider pre-1950s "virtuous" is if you ignore or support racism.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

They have seen church leaders in America claim persecution at every inconvenience, so when persecution really comes, they have no categories for it. 7/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

My son's question during devotionals: "Why didn't the rich people give some of their money to the poor widow who gave her last two coins?" I love his perspective!

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

21 days

One of the elder qualifications that I believe is often overlooked is that the elder must be well thought of by outsiders. The Christian school to Bible college to seminary pipeline means that many pastoral candidates don't have very many outside relationships. 1/2

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

They have voluntarily laid down their rights and preferences so that they may remove any hindrances that may taint the message if the gospel only to return and find Christians fighting for power. 3/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

28 days

🧵This is a perfect example of spiritual manipulation, gaslighting, & DARVO. It looks like a celebratory post about how God used the church to restore a family & give this man a position to further the work of God's kingdom, right? What he omits makes this incredibly sinister. 1/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

4 months

I wish some of these pastors loved Jesus even half as much as they hate @BethMooreLPM .

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

Periodic reminder: almost no one is deconstructing their faith because they read the work of a scholar. Almost all who are deconstructing are doing so because what they see in Evangelicalism doesn't match what they've been taught their whole life.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

They have grown accustomed to going out to show love to their neighbors only to return and find Christians expecting everyone to come to them. 4/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

3 years

I do not understand Christians who claim to support missions but rail against refugees and asylum seekers. Those two things are oxymoronic.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

Counterpoint: there is no war on white people in the West.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

So when missionaries return, understand why they aren't as enthusiastic about what is going on in American churches as you would hope our expect. They have experienced something very different and likely long for more of that. 12/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

A weird logical leap I am seeing: "First Trump, next the rest of the Christians!" So you think the FBI raided Mar-a-lago because Trump was too Christian?

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

I'm not so worried that Christian Nationalism will actually become a form of government in the US, although that would be extremely concerning. What I'm actually concerned about is that it will rip local churches apart and lead people astray.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

Can we talk about the fact that when white people enter minority spaces in their city it is called missions, but when minorities enter white spaces it's called diversity? 🤔

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

7 months

Hitler: "All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning." Trump: "Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from... It's poisoning the blood of our country."

Trump Echoes Hitler: Migrants "Poisoning the Blood of Our Country"

A page right out Hitler's Nazi propaganda playbook

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

21 days

Can I request a moratorium on the phrase "Jezebel spirit?" I can't think of a single time that it would ever be useful.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

4 months

Don't ever tell me that progressives are the ones responsible for the decline in the white American church.

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Entrance poll for white born-again or evangelical Christian caucus-goers. Trump was at 21% for this category eight years ago.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

They have a lot of training in evangelism and have done short-term trips, but have a very limited, if any, theology of suffering. 6/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

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Men tend to look at the garden and say, "See! The woman was deceived first!" They don't look at the garden and say, "To be like Satan is to attack women."

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

It seems CRT is no longer the greatest threat to the gospel. Now it is deconstruction. Fear of losing power means a constant game of whack-a-mole. It's a house built on the sand.

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Tyler Campbell

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1 year

🧵I see people wondering why young people are disillusioned with the Republican party. I see accusations of young people not caring about traditional values and the pro-life agenda. Let's think a little deeper for a second. 1/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

Instead of patience and long-suffering, they possess an urgency and impatience. Instead of life transformation, they are pursuing quick decisions. 8/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

We instead subvert the ruthlessness and power-grabbing of the world by loving and serving and showing hospitality and kindness, the likes of which the world around us has never seen or experienced. There is nothing more attractive than the love of God! /End

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

We do not live in unprecedented times. There was much ungodliness in the Roman Empire. And there are Christians living in ungodly nations across the world. Never did Jesus give a caveat that allowed us to be ungodly when the political moment required that of us. 6/

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

They are not ready to give up their culture for the gospel. They are not prepared to show the whole-life implications of the gospel. And they aren't prepared for years of labor with very little, if any, fruit. 10/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

3 months

I really can't think of a clearer way to say you hate women than to post a picture of a decapitated woman for an article like this.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

Christian, do not allow your consciences to be bound by this. This man may be powerful in the realm of American evangelicalism, but this is nothing more than partisan politics cloaked in religious language.

Right Wing Watch

@RightWingWatch

2 years

Speaking at the "Pray, Vote, Stand" summit, Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, declares that it's "absolutely necessary" for all Christians to vote in the 2022 midterms and that any Christian that votes "wrongly" is being "unfaithful" to God.

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

🧵Why do I write so much about Christian Nationalism? The short answer: it's what I know. It is what I grew up believing. I wasn't just a faithful adherent to Christian Nationalism, I was an evangelist. I talked the talk and walked the walk. I built a reputation around it. 1/

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

The "we're Christians, so our politics and families are superior" mentality is steeped in pride. "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." -James 4:6

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

Did I somehow miss the evangelical boycott of toy companies for pushing our kids toward unfettered materialism? Where has the pushback against that indoctrination been?

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

🧵What is more courageous: a rich white pastor who stays in a holding cell for a few nights because he is flouting health regulations or a small group of Christians voluntarily obeying all COVID protocols, huddled in a house in quiet worship under Sharia law? 1/

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Tyler Campbell

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4 months

When the church resorts to using the power of the state to fulfill her mission, she shows the world that she really doesn't believe the power of Jesus is sufficient.

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

"And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." - Matthew 16:18

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

Instead of whole-life flourishing, they are focused only on future eternal life. Short-term trips and even international ministry have not prepared them for any of this. 9/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

1 month

Tell me how supporting a blasphemer is the only Christian option, again?

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@atrupar

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he’s comparing himself to Jesus now

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Tyler Campbell

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8 months

@PastorTrey05 @ElGueroEnglish @DaveAlvord Weird, Mongolian doesn't have gendered pronouns to this day. 🤷‍♂️

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

Do not seat yourself in the VIP section. Otherwise, when the Master comes, he may send you to the cheap seats and give the seat of honor to another.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

21 days

If churches started requiring pastors to prove that they could hold down a secular job for 3-5 years and be well thought of during that time before becoming an elder, I really believe it would weed out a lot of the most problematic pastors before they got started. 2/2

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

This is a large reason that many missionaries struggle when they arrive on the field and many not only don't make it, but abandon their faith. 5/

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Tyler Campbell

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7 days

This is actually a perfect example of how Christian Nationalism doesn't need to be consistent with anything remotely Christian. It just needs Christian phraseology.

Ashley St. Clair

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VIVEK RAMASWAMY: “When we face our founding fathers in the afterlife and they ask us what sacrifice did you make for your country we better have a damn good answer for them.” 🔥🔥🔥

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Tyler Campbell

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4 months

Christianity pleads with God to change hearts so that our nation may be changed. Christian Nationalism invokes the name of God to enforce laws so that our nation is changed. They are not the same.

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

It isn't difficult to see the prosperity teaching that undergirds this idea. But something else happens when this idea exists. Anyone who is considered to be ungodly, then, is causing God's blessing to be removed from America. 2/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 months

As a Christian parent of two elementary kids, I couldn't object to this more. @RyanWaltersSupt , please stop playing culture war games.

Superintendent Ryan Walters

@RyanWaltersSupt

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Great visiting Riverside Elementary School today! All kids are created in God’s image. Thanks for having me out there

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

This is just not true. In fact, the first explosions of Christianity in Acts came as Christians were being scattered due to hostility. Let's not try to dictate what conditions are needed for the Holy Spirit to move.

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

Once someone is seen to be the cause of God's blessing being removed, that person is automatically branded as an enemy of God who is to be defeated. Mercy and kindness are no longer required because they are standing in opposition to God. 3/

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

So when they are faced with these realities on the field and have no example from their lives in American evangelical churches, they have a crisis of faith. This is way too common. 11/

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

🧵Trump supporters will claim that people just didn't like his mean tweets. But that's far too simplistic. Trump's entire platform was built on dehumanization. Remember the way he attacked his opponents. Everyone had a demeaning nickname. Physical appearances were attacked... 1/

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2 years

Here's a test: if the national border suddenly changed and ran between you and your physical neighbor, should you love them less? Christian Nationalism has no place in the kingdom of God.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

21 days

Why the @howertonjosh debacle matters to everyone. A🧵:

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 years

No. We were told that they would know that we are Christians by our love for one another, and once we were identified with Jesus, we would be hated like he was. But our enemy is not one of flesh and blood. Therefore we don't fight in the way of the world. 7/

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

I'm seeing quite a few people mockingly looking back at steps taken to try to curb the spread of COVID. We do realize that over 1M died of COVID in the US alone, right? Remember when the predictions were 200k and people mocked that as being too high? Why are we so OK w/ death?

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2 years

So instead of exhibiting the fruits of the Spirit and showing them the kindness of God, which leads to repentance, it isn't merely allowed, but is expected that we do everything in our power to crush them. 4/

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 months

It's becoming increasingly apparent to me that the reason many evangelicals are so scared of secularization is because they don't actually believe that Jesus is sufficient.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

4 months

In reality, @kkdumez had a far better analysis of what hijacked US Christianity.

Josh Howerton

@howertonjosh

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🧵How Misapplying Keller Hijacked US Xianity🧵 Large-platform evangelicalism got covertly hijacked by secular progressivism, many aren't yet understanding what’s happening, and (as a result) are attacking the *opposite* NET problem we are facing. Here’s how it happened:

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

2 months

The author of this book says that inter-ethnic marriage can be "relatively sinful." @DustyDeevers , are you planning to outlaw that next?

Dusty Deevers

@DustyDeevers

2 months

¿Quién teme al lobo feroz?

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Tyler Campbell

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3 years

Imagine Peter telling Paul that he had succumbed to "wokeness" when Paul called out his ethnic partiality as a gospel issue.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

28 days

What he doesn't tell you is that less than one year prior to this, he and his wife engaged in a campaign to rip a church to shreds because the other elders stepped in to hold him accountable for his words and actions. 2/

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

Many who promote this line of thinking suggest that this political moment requires us to be harsh, to set aside kindness until godliness can be restored to the nation. But this is incredibly myopic. 5/

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Tyler Campbell

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1 month

A thought about "piling on" leaders in the church: A toxic pastor destroyed our church. But he couldn't have done it alone. Actually, had the church collectively told him & his wife to knock it off when they were sowing seeds of dissention, then our church would still exist. 1/2

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

@SkyeJethani @philvischer @HolyPostPodcast @JoelWBerry He didn't do himself any favors in that thread. Actually, he just proved that Phil's description of the events was pretty accurate.

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Tyler Campbell

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2 years

There is a massive difference between telling a victim, "You aren't really oppressed because Jesus sets us free," and telling them, "Jesus cares about your oppression, will vindicate you, and will set you free." The former is disheartening, the latter is hope-filled.

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Tyler Campbell

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4 months

Since there's a book out there being talked about in the context of Critical Race Theory, let me remind everyone: Most of the pastors who were accused of teaching CRT had never heard of it before we were accused of it. 1/2

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Tyler Campbell

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3 years

If white supremacy and misogyny are key components of your theology, diversity will feel like a significant theological drift.

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Tyler Campbell

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3 months

This is what it looks like when politics drives your faith.

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Tyler Campbell

@osucowboytc

28 days

When you see things like this, be careful to take them at face value. They may be smokescreens to keep dark and sinister things hidden and misdirect you to look elsewhere. God can do great things, but this is not one of those situations. /End

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Tyler Campbell

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Maybe it's because the "conservative" party isn't so much conservative as it is regressive. Maybe the younger generations are tired of the status quo that says one thing but openly does another. I can't really say I blame them. /End

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Tyler Campbell

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What he doesn't tell you is that there were numerous people who had tried to step in even before that to talk with him about concerns they had. What he doesn't tell you is that he completely rejected efforts to get him rest and counseling so that he could be restored. 3/

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The Jews were told to seek the benefit of their city while they were in Babylon and to love their neighbors, even in Babylon. Yet nowhere were they told to love Babylon. Babylon represents worldly powers and empires. This directly ties to the Xian Nationalism discussion.

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When survivors rally together to speak out against yet another instance of abuse within American Evangelicalism, they are often referred to as "a mob." Has anyone ever stopped to ask why there are enough survivors of church abuse to earn the classification of "a mob?"

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3 months

Anyone comparing women pastors to Medusa is actively proving themselves to be unfit to be a pastor or teacher.

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2 years

I have now been blocked by @William_E_Wolfe and @Brian_Sauve for simply liking someone else's post. These are extremely fragile and insecure men who talk a big game, but can't handle any pushback.

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Actually, it's a story of deep spiritual abuse. It's a story of a man who has to be in a position of spiritual authority and will do anything necessary to get and stay there. And it's a story that will almost certainly lead to more pain for more people. 8/

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🧵Many of us were raised to be culture warriors. From the time we were born, we were enlisted in a cultural boot camp complete with systems of rewards and (more prominently featuring) systems of consequences for non-compliance. 1/

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What he doesn't mention is that he completely cut anyone who tried to get him to repent out of his life. What he doesn't mention is how he has made no effort to reconcile the relationships he torpedoed. 4/

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And now he's back in a position where he can continue to cause great harm. He hasn't dealt with a thing, yet he pretends that he has seen God do this great work of restoration in his life. And it looks like such a great story unless you know the rest. 7/

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Jesus said things that offended people. But he never did it for a laugh. And the offense was never at the expense of someone else. It was always calling them to something better.

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🧵Do you remember the Afghans? I know the news cycle has moved on, but do you remember them? Do you remember how they were coming as refugees and we were all going to do whatever we could to help them get resettled? 1/

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A lot of big evangelical names are really eager to take down @bethallisonbarr and @kkdumez . But you don't have to look far to see their theses working themselves out in real-time today. The criticism often says more about the critics than these two women.

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When pastors have spent years convincing people that the Republican party is the "Christian" party, it should be no surprise that people are trading church services for political rallies.

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This is the pattern. He dismissed the calls to repentance, attacked anyone who would tell him he needed to repent, cut them off completely, slandered them widely, destroyed a church, but then he was the victim in need of healing. 6/

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What he doesn't mention is that he has made no effort towards healing the brokenness he caused for an entire church. 5/

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@sheilagregoire I'll summarize: "People are saying that what I said was harmful. I don't care about them, but if you were so sensitive that you were hurt by a metaphorical knife to the face, then I guess that's my bad. Oopsie. Ok, glad that's over!"

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@howertonjosh Josh, you're missing the point. The problem is that many who have been hurt by "purity culture" aren't IN the church anymore. They decided they can't bear the shame and have left. Go talk to the dechurched and you will find this to be very true.

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I thought January 6 was just normal tourism? 🤔

Biden-Harris HQ

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: If I had it my way, we would have been successful on January 6 and Joe Biden wouldn't be president

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