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Don’t let your faith become a subsidiary of your sociopolitical ideology. Too often we only follow the parts of the Christianity that are approved by conservatism or progressivism. That’s backwards. #NewChristianPolitics #Orthodoxy2021

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“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory.” ~Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.” (Brennan Manning)

If reading the Bible causes me to scrutinize others more than I scrutinize myself, then I am not reading the Bible correctly.

Good Friday Reversals

GOSPEL CULTURE: • Grace > Demands • Welcome > Hurdles • Liberating > Suffocating • Reconciling > Bickering • Assuming the Best > Assumicide • Apologizing > Defending • Listening > Lecturing • Mercy > Judgment • Forgiving > Resenting • Others > Self • Jesus > Everything

The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.

Any gospel proclamation and spiritual formation project that doesn’t include justice can hardly be the gospel Jesus proclaimed. Contemplation must lead to action, justification to justice, faith to works, proclamation to demonstration, liturgy to liberation.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in her life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do. . . . Disciples simply are people who are constantly revising their affairs to carry through on their decision to follow Jesus. — (Dallas Willard)

Following Jesus is not something we put off until we have first done what we want to do first. Eugene Peterson

Thread: The early church was marked by a deep concern for the poor and for racial equality (Gal 2:10; 3:28). At the very same time, it taught that sex was only for within a mutually self-giving life-long covenant of marriage (1 Thess 4:3-8; 1 Cor 6:12-20). 1/7

To our modern ears, this sounds like a contradictory mishmash of liberalism and conservatism. And today the church is being fragmented by progressives and conservatives who want it to only serve one of these commitments and discard the other. 2/7

But to the church, the sex ethic & the justice ethic are a whole cloth. Sexual immorality and injustice go hand in hand because there is a unifying principle that unites them. In Jesus, we see one who had ultimate power and privilege sacrificing it in order to love and save us. 3

Our racial divide is a disease. Human remedies won’t fix it; they merely mask the symptoms for a season. What we need is a prescription from our Creator based on His Word to destroy this cancer before it destroys us all.

The deepest social problems have never been solvable with secular solutions, nor will they ever be. Only the power of Christ and the Gospel can achieve reconciliation, peace, and justice between Jews, Greeks, and every division they represent.

Sin is ultimately an attempt to fill our need for God with everything but God. (Richard Foster)

Soooo excited and amazed by this community 🤯 Thank you NJI Josh Shultz Nathan Imperiale Jeremy Burroughs Kristie Cromie and many others for partnering with us to make this a reality for so many moms who may not be able to afford a great meal on Mother’s Day!

Special thanks to NJI Josh Shultz Nathan Imperiale Jeremy Burroughs and all of the other partners who helped make yesterday a success and a blessing for a lot of local families