Carol McBrayer

@MachiavelliQ_ @Hayden_Williams @NICKIMINAJ 17

@Hayden_Williams @NICKIMINAJ Aaliyah born in 79 was 20 in 96?

Are y’all understanding that these ppl have been sacrificing children as a way of gaining & maintaining power? If you ever vote DemonCrat again, you’re just as soulless as they are & will perish. Maybe it’s time for me to do some story times — since I was trying to not say what I know — yet they continue to attempt bullying. Also, I won’t be releasing an album until my contract is renegotiated & until I tell you about all the sabotage this RICO is finding out about Billboard.

@Wvrthyx @euphorixa @eatuhfrank FOR REAL! Glad I found the subthread that makes sense. I’m reading through the rest and thinking “y’all are the ones that are weird and have issues”. They are seriously projecting.

@euphorixa @eatuhfrank Exactly! I would love for somebody to explain to me why being obsessed with wanting a daughter is any less weird than being obsessed with wanting a son. Like What is the difference?

I like when girls proudly say that they want a daughter cause why is everyone so obsessed with having a son?

@twoolsey7 @BethMooreLPM These guys make me 😁

@BethMooreLPM I was looking for birds and found this little guy instead at Palo Duro Canyon today!

I know right now the reason some of y’all don’t like me is because the Lord shows me great birds. Can I help it if the rare Eastern Towhee was in my woods this morning?? Or that I just had a visitation by the deaconess of all believing birds, the Eastern Phoebe?

@Tristanoxo @CollinRugg No, that’s not when people “traditionally get baptized”. I’m guessing you’re Catholic or Methodist or only know of their practices. They “baptize” babies. The rest of the Christian church baptizes one after they make a decision to follow Christ so baptizing adults is common.

@CollinRugg How was that a crazy question lol? He is 22 years old ppl traditionally get baptized as a child, and he did it right before the game on sunday. Just a question on his motives specifically, calls it a crazy question then proceeds to explain his personal reasoning. 😵 congrats tho!

Jacksonville Jaguars star Travis Hunter responds to reporter who asked him why he got baptized before his game. "It's a crazy question. Why did I get baptized? It's Sunday, it's God's day, and I've been planning to get baptized for a minute." "I want to change my life, I want to become a better man..." "It means a lot, you know, becoming a better man, leaving my old flesh and just becoming the new Travis." Great answer.

@TexasforBrains @TxDPS Good grief. You know you can renew online, right? Same as always

@TxDPS What is the point? There has to be a better way than changing the card material. We all had to chase the REAL ID crap, now another pointless change that makes us book difficult appointments. If something is that important, then make the validator use multifactor.

Heads up, Texas: @TxDPS is rolling out a new driver license design. Starting today, Texas driver license and identification cards will have a new look. The new card design includes increased security features and is made of tamper-resistant polycarbonate material that is difficult to reproduce. Previously issued cards are still valid until their new expiration date. Read more about this change at bit.ly/41ca4eL. #New #Texas #DriverLicense

@Suzierizzo1 @grandpol41551 @Ken_bbFan I’m confused, is this the word you call people when you don’t like or agree them because I know you have to aware Ken is not a bot 🤦🏻‍♀️

@grandpol41551 @Ken_bbFan Bot

Pam Bondi decided that a Saturday would be a good day to go shopping at the Carlyle Wegman’s store in Alexandria, Virginia with all her Secret Service detail and the customer s weren’t having it and told her off! They told her to go home,she was an embarrassment,Booed her too! 😁

@allenanalysis BREAKING: Dallas is blue. It’s been blue for a long time.

BREAKING: Dallas, deep red, oil-soaked, and MAGA-aligned is now flooded with anti-Trump protesters. A city once thought untouchable has joined the rebellion. The tide is turning.

@ShirleanAl1212 @durrman777 @reachjulieroys @ElevationChurch @stevenfurtick Did you fail to read the article? He’s not being accused of SA. He is accused of being physically and emotionally abusive.

@durrman777 @reachjulieroys @ElevationChurch @stevenfurtick Sexual assault is not a mistake!!

.@ElevationChurch—@StevenFurtick’s N.C. megachurch—has fired its youth pastor due to alleged inappropriate conduct more than a decade ago. Allegations against youth pastor Tim Somers stem from his time as intern & staff member at Oaks Church in north TX. julieroys.com/elevation-chur…

@elonmusk 😂🤣😂

@ScottDa81024597 @elonmusk @Becky_Weiss_ Yeah, I’m seeing all these replies and I’m like, “ REALLY??!! HOW DO YOU NOT GET THIS IS SATIRE??!!”

@elonmusk lol the sheer amount of people that don’t realize this is obvious satire is hillarious!! (Sorry @Becky_Weiss_ that so many are struggling to see it but then again, congrats on nailing a liberal so well!)

@HeidiBriones @elonmusk The sheer number of people that don’t get that is scary. 🤦🏻‍♀️

@elonmusk Elon, you know this is satire, right? Seems no one else is getting it 😂

@Becky_Weiss_ @elonmusk The sheer number of people that don’t get that makes me doubt humanity more and more. 🤦🏻‍♀️

@elonmusk Hey that’s me! Guys, it’s satire 😂

@megoman5276 @liz_churchill10 *UK

She deleted her account. Lol.

Nights like this🎶

@DEI_Champion @reachjulieroys What is this picture supposed to be showing??? This is a husband and wife at a marriage conference 🤷🏻‍♀️

Five weeks after resigning their pastoral positions at Gateway Church (@gatewaypeple), James and Bridgette Morris, the son and daughter-in-law of disgraced megachurch pastor Robert Morris, announced they’re starting a new church and seeking supporters. julieroys.com/five-weeks-res…

@juliekanealii @black3or5 @dandelionmama Can you read???!!! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

@black3or5 @dandelionmama Can you read? It says on the first line man lawyer. Good grief.

@IkerdBritt @BenjaminSWatson He must have a lot of colds because it hard to understand him very often.

@BenjaminSWatson He did restrain well. I wish he would have stayed on question. I had a hard time understanding everything Biden said, but I’m told he has a cold.

Trump is restraining himself. He’s clearly been told not to insult Biden’s intelligence which he has had ample opportunity to do thus far. He’s presenting as Presidential not social media off the hip

@aubree_mcbrayer Babe you are a beautiful soul. Don’t let this parasite filled pile 💩rob that from you. Just know your worth. Stay your beautiful loyal self to those that support you and just be done with those that 💩 on you. If they aren’t for/support you, they are against you. Simple as that

@BoysenMr @bobhamp

@BoysenMr @bobhamp Did you read the entire post? He NEVER said that was the case. He said the church (in general) doesn’t treat the category of sexual abuse differently than just sexually inappropriate relationships so it gives the illusion that victims are responsible to

My name is Bob Hamp and I was on staff at Gateway Church from 2005 til 2014 and I want to talk about the importance of right conversations. With that topic in mind, I first want to say to Cindy Clemishire how terribly sorry I am for all you have been through. First of all as a little girl at the hands of a man, and others that you trusted. I am sorry for the betrayal that you experienced. Secondly, I want to say how sorry I am that you have carried this all these years. Thank you for your courage to speak up. You have done nothing wrong, and you have done nothing wrong by speaking up. Then, with that topic further in mind I want to encourage us all to be wise to the pressure you will face to have a conversation that can actually make things worse. I worked at Gateway Church for almost ten years. My role there was to develop and implement their Freedom Ministry. The events in the news were well before my time. I was not involved in any way in this situation and learned a number of new and heart-breaking things reading Cindy’s telling of the story. At least half of my time there I was an executive pastor with a large team working to help those who struggled find real and lasting freedom Even back in those days I taught about and worked with victims of spiritual abuse, and in the last seven years I have found myself working and teaching extensively in the abuse advocacy world. The current swell regarding the news about Robert Morris is sadly an incredibly important pattern for ALL of us to open our eyes and look at. It is easy to pick one of the more obvious sides and either cast him aside or jump staunchly to his defense. If we do that, we will miss the larger and more important conversations that MUST begin to take place in the church. Larger system dynamics are at play that both foster and protect ongoing predatory behavior. When we miss the larger picture issues, we miss the opportunity to protect the church and put a stop to an epidemic of abuse. Depending on what happens over the next week or more, this story could be just like dozens of others, or something new and different could happen. Don’t ask lawyers for guidance, ask counselors and abuse advocates. Willow Creek never learned how to handle their predatory pastors abusive behaviors and the campuses and congregations have paid a price ever since. This is NOT simply a story of whether we “practice forgiveness” and move on or dig our heels in and call for Robert Morris’ metaphorical crucifixion. This is a story of how issues like this have become epidemic in the church, and why it continues to happen and what must be done to see and stop this blight. This is a story with so many players and so many dynamics that we must really become wise to the schemes of abuse, or we may inadvertently feed the cycle. The cycle is one that is a much bigger picture than just “moral failures” and the debate about “restoration” It is a cycle of out of control power dynamics, and manipulation. It is a cycle about belief systems in the church and the culture which set us up to support abusive people. It is a cycle about the language of manipulation and minimization, and the protection of institutions over people. And it is a cycle that is centuries old. Even in the secular world it is well known that women don’t report rapes nearly as often as they happen, and that in our police departments we can consistently observe a trend to blame victims and protect perpetrators. This dynamic is even worse in the church because the belief systems in the church and the propensity to protect powerful institutions and powerful people has infected the structures of the church, when this happens, the church is no longer the church. So what do I mean we could engage in conversations that make things worse? There are lower-level conversations that are tempting to engage, and they are a distraction from the conversations the church at large must begin to have in earnest. Some are angry at what they read, and some will be angry at the fact that such information is being shared. Some will be angry at Robert Morris, and others will want to jump to his defense. The pull to these polarities and the emotions that both sides will feel and provoke, will keep us from addressing the real and more important issues. And the real and important issues are bigger than any single church. Sadly, they are global. Bill Hybels, Ravi Zacharias, Mark Driscoll and an endless list of names including “The Catholic Church “and many other large religious systems are all symptoms of a great sickness in our culture that must be addressed, or this story will be repeated for decades to come. The religious culture of today has some built in dynamics and beliefs systems that create a deep and rich soil for a growing culture of predation and abuse. And like all abuse the likelihood that the general public will misunderstand and as a result respond in support of the wrong things is high. First let’s look at the church’s focus and belief system around its own system. Far too often the leaders in religious organizations are granted a special status, or worse, a status of being special. This affords them systems of separateness and protection that the average person may not realize. It is crucial to keep in mind that none of us have a higher status than another in the Kingdom and in the eyes of God. The institution of the church creates hierarchical structures with the implication or direct indication that the higher leaders are special both spiritually and socially. This is incredibly dangerous to both sides of the divide. Within these structures the church develops oversimplified understandings of complex problems. One area this is incredibly harmful is when church’s deal with “sin issues” without considering the possibility that some of these “sin issues” may actually be legal issues. When this happens laws are ignored, and more importantly the reasons for the laws are discounted and subjected to the supposed “higher power” of the church. The churches power to forgive does not extend into legal arenas and it does not remove the right of the state to prosecute and the victim to seek legal means of justice. Too often this leads to having the wrong conversation about “dealing with someone’s sin”. Add together the dynamic of “special leaders” and handling legal issues as if they are church jurisdiction and you will see the protection of leaders from legal consequences and consequently the lack of protection of those without power in the institutional structure. Now blend in the church’s confusion about psychological issues and sexuality. While the church is trying to deal with the issue of “sexual sin” it has only one category for it. Two people did something they should not have done. With no category for sexual abuse, sexual predation, compulsivity, power differentials, paraphilias, pedophilia, coercive control and a range of personality disorders, the church may try to deal with complex issues as if two people just misbehaved and need to be spanked. And if they oversimplify the problem, they certainly oversimplify the solution. You cannot effectively change that which you do not understand. So, when someone initiates abusive behavior because of a personality disorder, and maintains a dynamic of coercive control over a victim, and the church labels this as “an inappropriate relationship, or worse a “moral failure” disaster follows not only in that specific situation, but in the culture of that church and the generations that follow. The labels common in church culture (inappropriate relationship, and “moral failure”) both minimize what is really happening and deceive every other person about what has really happened. People hear these phrases as descriptive of mutual relationships and so respond as if the abuse was actually a mutual relationship. Two people are blamed for one person’s sickness. This is how victims get blamed. And this is how an entire culture can turn on someone whose only “crime” was to be the victim of predation. The victim of a predator, or worse a predatory crime is not to blame for the behavior of their perpetrator and is therefore in no need of forgiveness. They are in need of being supported, embraced and being provided a path of healing. Take these three dynamics; the special leader, the mishandling of sin, and the minimizing labels laden with inaccurate implication and the entire culture will fight about who was wrong and who should be forgiven and in doing will leave the dangerous dynamics in place. And it will happen again. And it will happen again. And it will happen again. Paul makes it clear that predators should be put out of the church, He does not distinguish which ones should and should not be based on position or popularity. When an institution or person consults image consultants and attorneys who protect the institution, that institution can no longer be considered a place of healing for the wounded. When the victim becomes the bad guy and the perpetrator is defended and protected, any pretense that the gospel is being forwarded in that culture must be abandoned. We should be sad about what we are reading. We should be sad for the many lives being destroyed. We should be sad for a cultural divide built around protecting the uncontrolled impulses of leaders. And we should stop allowing propaganda to get us all to argue about the wrong things. Preach the gospel to the poor. Heal the broken hearted. Proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind. Set at liberty those who are oppressed. And put a stop to protecting those who do harm to others.