All were tainted by the Fall [Genesis 5:3] but nobody is born GUILTY of Adam's sin, and already condemned.
Toneskee ☀️@Toneskeee
Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
English
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢 𝗔
40.8K posts
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢 𝗔
@RisingDisciples
If Western Christians ever woke up to God's provisions & promises, we'd be a real threat to the gates of hell. We've settled for institutional church instead 😴
East Tennessee Inscrit le Ocak 2019
667 Abonnements3.6K Abonnés
@YoungRock84 Don't you identify as a Methodist? Methodists aren't monergists.
English
@RisingDisciples That's a good criticism of liberal churches, but once you say "man-centered, powerless 'Gospel'", monergists and scripture lovers don't see you as criticising us.
English
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢 𝗔 retweeté
How many others are willing admit, along with me...
"I'm so tired & fed up with Christian "activities," services, sermons, compromise, complacency, blandness, self-protection, irrelevance, & the powerlessness that oozes from individualistic, institutional Western Christendom?
English
🤔 Perhaps because what we label as "the church" is not genuine biblical Ecclesia, @JeffVanderstelt?
English
Why do Calvinists work SO HARD as door-to-door salesmen for Calvinism?
They do little else.
🤔 Something to think about.
Ken@Ken_FiveSolas
Christ died for everyone that the Father has chosen to save before the foundation of the world. (Jn 6:37-40; 6:44; Acts 13:48; Rom 8:29,39; 9:10-13, 15,16; Eph 1:4,5; Col 3:12-14; 1 Thess 1:2-4).
English
@YoungRock84 That's a halfway decent copout, but only contented church attendees will buy it.
x.com/i/status/20349…
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢 𝗔@RisingDisciples
Most so-called evangelism in the West fails because the few who do evangelize cast seed on hardened ground with a man-centered, powerless "Gospel." The 4 Spiritual Laws don’t confront sin, Lordship, or repentance. They produce occasional "decisions"… not committed disciples.
English
@RisingDisciples I get your point, but now your problem is with people who should be shouting on the streetcorner, not with anything inside the churches. Unbelievers have too much apathy for them to decide to riot. The hate and persecution is in the form of avoidance.
English
@YoungRock84 Your original reply should result in those churches turning your town upside down and bringing hatred and persecution upon themselves.
"Keeping sinners from being comfortable in the pews" is a subjective opinion that falls far short of what biblical Ecclesia has always done.
English
@RisingDisciples Enough to keep sinners from being comfortable in the pews.
English
@YoungRock84 That's awesome.
I'm assuming that the conservative Baptist, Methodist, and Pentecostal churches in your town are truly turning your town upside down and bringing hatred and persecution upon themselves.
True?
English
@RisingDisciples If you use that to define "western Christendom"
yes, tired.
But from my point of view that's liberal Christianity, not the conservative Baptist, Methodist*, or Pentecostal churches in my town whose "activities" lead people to God's Word and whose sermons declare the power of God.
English
Most so-called evangelism in the West fails because the few who do evangelize cast seed on hardened ground with a man-centered, powerless "Gospel."
The 4 Spiritual Laws don’t confront sin, Lordship, or repentance.
They produce occasional "decisions"… not committed disciples.
English
@CadenJCooper @SacrdCowTipping Are you still part of that institutional Church?
English
@SacrdCowTipping And yet, some of the objections were, "But if we teach this and tell other people this, they may not give money to pay for our church building or other things." I basically just said that I couldn't in good conscience teach something I know is false for the sake of money.
English
I am continually encouraging by the rapidly growing number of people pursuing and returning to biblical ekklesia. I don't think it is just my algorithm, I am seeing it in the real world as well. Anyone else?
English
In the West, we debate denominations.
In China, Iran, Somalia; FOLLOWING Christ can cost you everything.
They aren’t arguing Catholic vs Orthodox vs Protestant. They’re risking their lives to follow Jesus.
When pressure comes, labels fade. What remains is real discipleship.
English
@PaulMDohse You're saying that none of them are aware of the doctrine of evanescent grace, but numerous non-calvinists are aware of it?
English
@RisingDisciples John Piper admitted to me publicly that he doesn't know anything about Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. None of them are aware that Calvin taught a temporary election for some.
English
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢 𝗔 retweeté
@RisingDisciples You're not "ordained" to sin because the All Knowing has already seen it happen. You still have free will, He just allows people to do what they decide to do, it's not a designed rejection, it's an allowed rejection, but that doesn't change the repercussions, it supports them.
English
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢 𝗔 retweeté
@RisingDisciples You’re confusing (I hope out of ignorance) Calvinism with Hyper Calvinism.
English
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢 𝗔 retweeté
Election isn’t God creating some for salvation & others for damnation.
BELIEVERS are chosen in Christ (Eph 1:4), not selected in isolation.
Christ is THE Chosen One.
Those in Him by faith share that election.
No one is chosen to believe. Double predestination isn’t the Gospel.
English
@RisingDisciples Amen!
Both "Christ" and "you" are mentioned in 1 Peter 1:20. Notice where Christ is. Notice where you are.
1 Peter 1:20 "He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake."
bible.com/bible/111/1pe.…
English