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What’s a disciple?
Someone who is immersing their entire life in the triune God and who is actively learning to obey everything Jesus commanded.
See Matthew 28:19-20
“For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”
Matthew 24:24
Heaven:
Infinite purpose w/o infinite burden.
Infinitive love w/o infinite sorrow.
All wrapped in the delight and joy and interactive love of the Triune God—in whom we will finally be home.
Scott Marshall retweeted
"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows it.”
- George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie
Scott Marshall retweeted
You can be a conservative and oppose the death penalty in modern America.
If conservatism includes skepticism of bloated, fallible, and sometimes corrupt government power, there is a strong conservative case for refusing to give the state its most ultimate and irreversible power: executing a human life.
Scott Marshall retweeted
In a nation with maximum security prisons and the possibility of making mistakes with death penalty convictions, the death penalty is both unnecessary and inhumane.
BREAKING: Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is still alive after two lethal injections, her lawyer says in a motion to again halt the execution. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ahe…
Some definitions. A 🧵:
GOD’S LIFE:
The relationship of love, delight, and joy that has existed between Father, Son, and Spirit for all eternity, spilling over with abundance as creative beauty into the cosmos. This relationship is at the center of all that is.
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BEING SAVED:
The felt experience of the in-breaking of God’s life into a human life. The moment the human becomes aware their sin created their mess and sees God standing as the door out, aware for the first time of Jesus’ invitation to follow him into God’s life.
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Definitions are important because often Christians lose meaning through over-familiarity, creating odd bifurcations between things like "life" and "spiritual life" and "maturity" and "spiritual maturity" as though one exlcudes the other.
#selah
SALVATION:
The in-breaking of God’s life into a human life. The moment the human becomes aware their sin created their mess and sees God standing as the door out, aware for the first time of Jesus’ invitation to follow him into God’s life.
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Definitions are always necessary because words like these get thrown around in Christian circles and lose their meaning under the assumption of familiarity. This can end up bifurcating realities like “life” and “spiritual life” into almost meaningless categories.
#selah