Amos / Draw Near

@JoshuaKhane Microsoft: "Yeah, your account got hacked. Instead of recovering it, we're going to "protect" it by making sure that you never have access to it again. Oh, and you'll need to repurchase all your games, too. @Microsoft

Microsoft DELETED my account AND OneDrive!!?? After ACKNOWLEDGING that I’m the owner of the account and that it was compromised??? 25 fucking years of data, thousands of euros spended on games?? My son’s baby pictures? GONE! All because MICROSOFT couldn’t bring back a compromised account?? One of the biggest companies ever coulnd’t do that so they just deleted that shit like it was nothing?? Fucking shame on you!! @microsoftnl @MicrosoftHelps @MicrosoftHelpt @Microsoft #microsoft #hacked

@DrFrankTurek Also, create opportunities for male companionship. Women talk face to face, men talk shoulder to shoulder. Look into organizations like @F3Nation or consider starting a male-only running or workout group.

@DrFrankTurek Active, purposeful discipleship is lacking. Men need to be engaged and challenged. SOAP: Schooling—Imparting info Opportunity—Availability of service roles Apprenticeship—Modeling of service in those roles Practice—Create opportunities to fail and gain experience

What can churches do to appeal more to men and avoid hyper feminization?

@TheMuppetPastor Hah, this was exactly a year ago yesterday.

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Leftists think that a major corporation selling them books is an act of rebellion.

@aspin3 @5Solas 🎯

Sheep are followers. The sheep referred to in John 10 are followers of the Father. They trusted and believed the Son because they spoke the same message and had the same voice. While Christ was on earth HE ONLY came for the Lost House of Israel. The apostles never even knew salvation was for the gentiles until after CHRIST ascended which is why He said when He is raised up he will draw all people unto HImself. John is clear about that all the way through. The sheep of another fold were the few Gentiles that followed and feared the Father like the Centurion and the Eunich, etc. Such a notion that we have always been in Christ and His sheep subverts the very foundation of the Gospel of what our position was after the fall/before we are saved vs. what our position is after we are saved. We were enemies of God, children of wrath, not known by God or knowing God before we were saved. If we were always in Christ, always His sheep what are we being saved from? Scripture is CRYSTAL clear: Romans 8:9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. John 5:45-47: “‘Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?’” Who was Christ talking to? Those Jews/self-professed followers of God and the Mosaic law who do not believe what Christ is saying or who He is. (So, if the Jews who were pushing back against what Jesus was preaching really were followers of God and students of Moses, then they would have believed Jesus’ message, and recognized what He was saying had already been proclaimed through Moses and Abraham, etc.. Note how Christ refers to the hope they put in Moses referring to the law as well and them not recognizing that Jesus came to fulfill the law.) John 6:45: “‘It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught of God.” Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.’” (Jesus is calling them out on their claim that they know and follow the Father and have been taught by Him. We know all the Jews have been taught by the Father through oral tradition and the Toray but they have not all heard or learned from the Father or else they would believe what Christ says because the Father and Son are one and speak the same message. Those who have heard and learned from the Father come to the Son). I will repeat. All have been taught of God. Not all heard and learned from the Father though. John 7:17: “‘If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.’” (If you are in right relationship with God the you’ll see the Father in the Son.) John 8:19: “So they were saying to Him, ‘Where is Your Father?’ Jesus answered, ‘You know neither Me nor My Father; if you knew Me, you would know My Father also.’” (Christ very pointedly rebukes them that if they actually knew God the Father they would know the Son but since they do not know the Father that is why they are rejecting Christ. John 8:42: “Jesus said to them, ‘If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.’” John 8:47: “‘He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.’” (This is a huge rebuke to the elite of the Jews who believed they were the closest to God and were the teachers and holders of the law of God. HE is saying they truly are not of God because they had not truly heard and learned. They are following their own religiousity they added to God’s word and created more rules and requirements) John 12:44-45: “‘He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.’” John 14:10: “…‘the Father abiding in Me does His works.’” As Richard Coords summarizes, “In other words, it’s a pretty seamless transition, going from disciples of the Father to disciples of Christ— no unconditional election or Irresistible Grace is required, because the one’s given, drawn and granted by the Father to come to Christ are not the unwilling but the willing.” The reason why everyone who is given, comes to Christ—with perfect consistency—simply echoes what Jesus had already said: If you believed Moses, “you would” believe Me. (John 5:46) These very same ones are those who are referred to as the Sheep. Sheep are followers, we will get into this when we go through chapter 10. When Christ says I have other sheep who I will bring into this fold He was referring to the God fearing Gentiles like the Centurion or Cornelius who believed and followed the Father and would be given to the Son. There were NO enemies of God, children of wrath, those who did not follow the Father but were supposedly elected before the foundation of the world that were spoken of as sheep of the Son. Romans 8:9 states that 9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.” We see this same message of Christ all the way through chapters 5 to 14. Let’s not forget that while Christ was on the earth He came only for the Lost House of Israel. It is not until Acts 10 that God reveals to the apostles that salvation is for the Gentiles as well. He then stated in John 12:32 that when He is raised up He will draw all men to Himself, both Jew and Gentile. I will put the scripture stating that Christ first came to the Lost House of Israel and who his sheep are in the comments below.

@DPGBehler Fade to Black was the song that taught me how to do a hammer-on.

1. Come Sail Away by Styx 2. Fade to Black by Metallica 3. Subdivisions by Rush

Understanding the idea of body life as a gathering or assembly of God's people inhibits the nearly automatic association of the word church with a building.

Should we have church buildings?

I'm starting a long thread on church order, which I will be adding to as I work through Life in His Body, but this line in chapter one is probably the most important exhortation in the book.

@_P3te_Belcher @One_Anothering I like Inrig's description of the church pertaining to this: "A living body of believers bound together in a shared life."

@_P3te_Belcher Institution: An organization established for specific purposes or goals And yes. I'm working on "Beyond the Building" (@One_Anothering) specifically to educate believers on that point.

Thoughts? On Inrig's quote about churches not being institutions but organisms, I disagree. Organism: Born and grows Institution: Built and fitted The church is both, a living body that orders its life and gifts through biblically described and Spirit-led practices.

@Ponderingpeon This is so cool.

So I made a thing. This ine fits in a bookshelf. It doesn't have a front dust cover but I will get one on it. This was a cheaper on. The next one I do will have the push button for the light on front.

@th3muse My wife came out of a denom that has its roots in Anabaptists. A lot of her family is still in it. They are good people but very legalistic in some areas.

@DrawNear_ What do you think about Anabaptism? I only recently researched it, and I quite like it 😅 I think most are Amish or Mennonite now? I looked up their views tho and it resonated. And neo-anabaptists? They believe same but don’t forsake tech or live in rural areas.

William Estep calls believer's baptism "the most revolutionary act of the reformation..." "No other event so completely symbolized the break with Rome." Many of the men who baptized each other that day would be killed or exiled for their faith. (Estep, "The Anabaptist Story")

@rootcausesleuth @One_Anothering Absolutely.

@DrawNear_ @One_Anothering They can be useful

That’s the most depressing one. There’s one particular person on here that I followed for a while but eventually had to distance myself from. I think he is a truly God-loving person, but invariably, whenever we discussed matters of theological disagreement and I refused to give way, he would start psychoanalyzing why I was disagreeing with him. I really wanted to like him, but this happened every single time, and eventually I unfollowed and muted. It was genuinely saddening.

@DrawNear_ Option 1.

Grok instructs Calvinist about assuming the best about someone. 😂 Weird to see AI being more Christian than a Christian.

@rootcausesleuth youtu.be/LnTPojiDTqk?is… Phil has a good vid on this aspect of carrying.

@DrawNear_ Thank you

What does “bear the sins” mean? The sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die. Num 18:22 “As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it. Ezek 4:4 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. Ezek 23:49 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Heb 9:28