osucowboytc.bsky.social
Former missionary, former pastor, deeply wounded by both for very different reasons.
I just want the church to try to look like Jesus.
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Reported
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Yes please!
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I'm intrigued!
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And the scary question is, what if they kind of even like that? What if the division that is revealed at the end of all of it turns out to be the logical conclusion of everything they were after? /End
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What if, in the end, they have so dehumanized everyone else who doesn't fit their categories that they are the only ones left standing. And what if they look around and are all alone?
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What if they begin to narrow their circles until no one can actually be a part anymore? What if it begins with a desire to exclude on the basis of doctrine, but then extends to culture and customs, and then to ethnicity and gender?
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What if, as fundamentalists seek to separate themselves from everyone not like them, who in their eyes just aren't quite holy enough, God begins to give them over to their own desires?
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What if the sins listed in Romans 1 are not the only ones that work this way, though? What if the sins of fundamentalism work very much the same way?
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Is that a Westie?
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Isn't DOGE going to be eliminating that position soon?
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America First.
Christian if it doesn't in any way conflict with #1.
Also, only American if it fits certain criteria.
Am I doing this w̵h̵i̵t̵e̵ right?
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Good question. I'm in Oklahoma, which is pretty much the buckle.
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Just inject bleach.
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Oh I see. You're looking for coded language and are missing the actual context and words.
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Jesus rejected all of what you are saying explicitly.
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Please go reread the gospel accounts of the crucifixion.
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That idea is foreign to anything in the Bible.
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Pilate found that he had done no wrong. That's not what Rome says about anti-Roman revolutionaries.
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