#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran #Reformation #Christian #Jesus #Godsnotdead Well, it's Reformation month again--time for some more reforming! If you're not REforming, you're DEforming. If you think the Reformation is merely a thing of the past, so are you! More at 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Bible Thesis 5: The Bible is not an instruction manual on how people should live but a love letter from God to us. Although love involves respecting rules and guidelines, the last thing that true lovers need is a bunch of instructions. More at 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Jesus Thesis 82: One of the saddest things in the world is that when people hear words such as “Christian,” “pastor,” “Bible,” “church,” “Jesus,” and “God,” they think of something violent and oppressive rather than liberating and transforming. 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran #Christian #Christianity #Jesus #Godsnotdead Thesis 61. People do not exist for the church. Rather, the church exists for people. See more theses at 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF Thesis 63. Jesus never prohibited what we call "divorce.” What he said was that one should not simply “dismiss” or “send away” one’s spouse, cutting off what has become one's own flesh without first making every effort to get that flesh healed. 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran #Reformation Thesis 71. As Luther repeatedly stressed on the basis of the story of Balak and Balaam in Numbers 22, if God can speak through an ass, God can speak through any of us. More at 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran Thesis 47. Faith saves because it involves constantly looking to God and clinging to Christ rather than to ourselves. Faith alone transforms us, since one cannot cling to Christ without being dragged along wherever he decides to go. 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF Thesis 86. To do mission work is to go out to learn things and then go home and tell everyone what you learned. But be warned: when you go out to do mission, you may catch a deadly virus and then set loose an epidemic upon your return. More at 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran #Reformation Thesis 34. The notion of heaven can be used both in liberating ways to give people hope and in oppressive ways to manipulate people or keep them from struggling for a better world. See more at 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF The rich young man who refused to give up his wealth (?!) understood well the high price of following #Jesus. What he didn't understand is that you pay a much higher price in life for NOT doing so. Poor guy! NOTHING compares to following Jesus! 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran #Christian Thesis 40. Any who say, “We alone are God’s children” murder their own flesh and blood. More at 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran #Reformation Luther: "HERE I STAND!!!" . . . . Lutherans: "Here we sit...." . . . . Jesus: "RISE AND WALK!!!!" More at: 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF What does it mean to be #Lutheran? Why is the Lutheran church growing so rapidly in places like Africa? Check out my article "Dying to Be Lutheran" at 94t.mx/dl. But be careful--it might just put your life at risk!

#ELCA #LWF Thesis 27. Any person who cannot grasp why St. Paul and Martin Luther were willing to die for the gospel they proclaimed will never truly comprehend it, no matter how much she or he studies their writings. Check out "Dying to be #Lutheran" at 94t.mx/dl.

#ELCA #LWF Thesis 10. If "perfect love casts out fear" (1 Jn 4:18), then perfect fear casts out love. If you truly love, you will not be afraid of the price you may pay for loving. But if you live in fear, you can't love, because your fear paralyzes you. 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF Thesis 56. If you live your life constantly looking over your shoulder because you are afraid, eventually you will get lost or trip and fall. In addition, those who would seek to take you captive have already accomplished their objective. 94t.mx

#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran #Reformation Luther: "HERE I STAND!!!" . . . . Lutherans: "Here we sit...." . . . . Jesus: "RISE AND WALK!!!!!" Check out 94t.mx and "Dying to Be Lutheran" at 94t.mx/dl

#ELCA #LWF #Lutheran It is time we stop using only gender-neutral language to speak of God and eliminate "Godself" from our theological vocabulary. To refuse to speak of God as "he" or "she" castrates him, sterilizes her, and neuters the gospel. See why at 94t.mx/igl/

#ELCA #LWF Where do we look for security in the midst of uncertainty? Bank account? Savings? Income? Or to one another? I know what Jesus would answer. NO ONE HUNGRY NO ONE HOMELESS NO ONE HELPLESS because we are all here for one another. WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE ANOTHER

#ELCA #LWF #SaveTPS To send 200,000 Salvadorans "back home" to a home that is not home to them is to make them homeless; and to make people homeless makes us all heartless and homeless, because a home without a heart is not a home. When we destroy other homes, we destroy our own.