Husband, Dad, Lead Pastor of @TheSummitNC. Cancer survivor. Outside kind of guy. Instagram @jonathanlrobbins
Kernersville, NC
Joined March 2010
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I co-sign this voter’s guide by @BrianZahnd 👇🏼
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In my role as a pastor, I’m not trying to get everyone to agree on everything so much as I’m attempting to create environments where our disagreements don’t automatically become cause for disunity.
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An identify of the cross is fundamentally at odds with an identity of empire.
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“It’s hard to convince people that a God they can’t see loves them when a church they can see doesn’t seem to like them.”
- John Alan Turner
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As Alexander the Great lay dying at age 33, he was asked to whom he would leave his kingdom. "To the strongest," he replied.
Those words unleashed two centuries of brutal warfare across the world.
When another young man prepared to die on a Greek-imported instrument of execution called 'the cross,' he answered such questions by saying, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If it were...my servants would fight."
By his voluntary death, Christ unleashed a movement of faith, hope, and love, of light and mercy, into a world darkened by death and despair. He fought for us rather than sending us to fight for him.
While the Christian life is a fight on many levels, it is not a fight to bring the kingdom through human power, a challenge that would summon the strong. No, the crucified King who was never called 'Great' has made the humility of a child, the lowliness of service, the vulnerability of weakness and the shame of the foolish, the characteristics of his peaceful kingdom's faithful advance.
This kingdom will not be given to the strong who fight but the humble who cry out for mercy.
Yes, there have been 'Greats' - Alexander, Catherine, Peter... but you will search in vain for any reference anywhere to 'Jesus the Great', and the reason this is so is evident: he defined kingdom and greatness in terms utterly upside-down from the way a merely human ruler would.
So the next time you meet a believer angrily fighting someone, remember, Jesus is NOT Great, but he IS LORD. He will do the fighting. "And of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end" (Isaiah 9). Tell them to put their sword away and then pray for the healing of the people their reckless defense of Jesus has wounded.
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We should start judging Jesus like some are doing to @AndyStanley, only by his sound bites? “He said eat his flesh! He’s a heretic cannibal!” “He eats with sinners! Heretic!!” Oh…there were people who did that!
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I think maybe we’d all be happier people if we made more fun of ourselves and less fun of others. Self importance is a heavy heavy burden.
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I mean, I just don’t think we’re going to stand before God on the great day & hear him say, you did such a fabulous job of publicly humiliating heretics. Those pictures were hilarious! Those quotes were the perfect burn! Get in here & let me hug your neck & hang a medal on it.
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“What would you say to a young Christian who’s nervous about the future?” @DrMoore asks @TimKellerNYC.
I love his answer.
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This is my pastor speaking to our state governmental leaders. I hope you'll watch it.
youtube.com/watch?v=hCBqacAS…
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During his inaugural address in 2019, Zelensky told lawmakers: “I do not want my picture in your offices: the President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang your kids' photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision.”
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"I need ammunition, not a ride." - Ukrainian President Zelensky when offered evacuation by the US government.
That quote is an incredible sign of leadership. It's going to go down in history. Sacrificing your own self for the good of others is the picture of leadership.
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The Word became flesh and dwelled among us.
The Word didn’t become a religious system.
The Word didn’t become a theological checklist.
The Word didn’t become a political movement.
The Word didn’t become an estatic experience.
The Word became flesh. Loving embodied existence.
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The church was meant to be the ultimate humanitarian, peacemaking, reconciling justice center in the world
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This will take your breath away. This is what hope in Jesus looks like. – at Ringgold, GA
