Ed Eubanks

@SunburnedSarah 😞

I'm in that group of 80s kids who grew up in homes + churches + schools where the word "love" meant two diametrically opposed things and if you're wondering how that group is doing now that we're in our 40s I have one event on my calendar today & it is therapy

@SunburnedSarah I’m sorry. I hope I never did anything to hurt you, and if I did please tell me so that I can apologize.

oh, look it's my childhood trauma and...🧵

@danitreweek So much yuck there. Thank you for this thoughtful and helpful thread and the corrections it provides. I’m grateful for this wisdom for single people and married people, ordained and laity. Everyone needs to read this.

So, I get that a comment like this is intended to be a genuine & caring “assist” of single Christian women. But I beg you to stop and think for a moment about some of the things it actually communicates to and means for those single Christian women. 🧵

@tom_mirabella @NBA @memgrizz and @Lakers

@EdEubanks @NBA What were you steaming?

Hey @NBA why is your steaming app so crashy/laggy/inept? I haven’t been able to watch a game all the way through for weeks.

Dang these “targeted” ads sure do miss the mark. I can’t think of very many things less interesting to me than online sports betting. But I live in NC so that’s now a thing.

@drantbradley Same

@andrewhwaller Then there’s that one single congregation in Seoul, Korea, also presbyterian, with 100K members.

here's a neat one, though: National Presbyterian Church of Mexico? around 3 million members. more than all the American Presbyterian churches *combined*. numbers aren't everything but the scale of American Presbyterianism isn't as large as American Presbyterians sometimes think.

@SunburnedSarah Nah

Finished The Crown today. Googled the date of the accident. Wondered if I'd written in my diary about it; found the diary. So, when it's my turn at the table Thursday, I'm thanking my family for not disowning me at 17—my most insufferable year, apparently.

@CAHutch1990 And a big factor is that we cannot control, or even guess, when and how the Holy Spirit may bring conviction on someone in an area in which we may recognize that they desperately need spiritual growth. That’s not our job.

I hate it when I hear preachers use Hebrews 12:14b to beat up on people, "Strive for... the holiness without which no one will see the Lord." - You have to grow in holiness or you may go to hell! First, 12a says, "Strive for peace with all people." They often leave that out 1/2

My youngest has always wanted light-up sneakers, so we bought him a pair for his first year in elementary school. After we dropped him off on his first day, I opened socials to take my mind off missing him and came across a video about back to school safety… 🧵

@mglodorts Nor is the New Covenant explicitly non corporate, either. Despite what Americans may think.

It is a widespread & serious error to view the New Covenant as a move from corporate to individual dealings with God. Individual repentance & faith was called for under the Old & corporate implications abound under the New. Individualism is not what's new about the New Covenant.

@JennMGreenberg @dabernathy89 A key concept both in philosophy and theology has been around so long many know it in Latin: “abuse does not negate proper use.” In fact, this principle is the very basis that many who grumble about all of “those” people “abusing the system” also use to justify gun ownership.

@dabernathy89 I think he’s just pointing out the disparity. There are people who seem to have a lot yet are on government aid, meanwhile people are starving, living paycheck to paycheck, or even homeless, and getting nothing. There are people who abuse the system.

Y’all know I don’t cuss, and I’m a pretty conservative Christian, but it saddens me to see criticism of Oliver Anthony. He’s a regular guy saying how he feels, and that’s OK. If you want to connect, let alone minister to people, you’ve got to be able to meet them where they are.

So, if you’re a guy, and don’t want to be friends with a woman, that’s fine. I don’t even force friendships on my kids. You’re fine. At least try to actively see them as sisters, not sexual objects. But if you’re a pastor, you either have to be ok giving pastoral care to women, or train women in leadership to give pastoral care to women. But you can’t just out of your own piety protect yourself from women, and not give them the pastoral care they need. Your job is to love and serve them. How you do that is flexible. But if you don’t have a plan for pastoral care for women, let me know, and I can help brainstorm some ideas.

One of the reasons we are moving out of Tennessee. We have given up on you, Governor Lee—and all of your GOP gun nut buddies.

@stephanienels Apparently Zaxby’s is offering them free with $5 purchase? (I got a targeted ad for such earlier today.)

@stephanienels Call if you need to talk about it.

@RFossett If you mean as, say, a part of a session meeting, two questions arise: what part(s) of that gathering rise to the level of public worship? And, is the rest of the congregation both notified and invited to that service of worship?

@RFossett Communion is intended as part of public worship—which is why the WCF forbids “private masses” etc. My guess is that your presbytery does it in that context as well. If your session is gathering to worship (say, at a retreat) then it seems congruent. | 1 / 2

@JoshuaLWatson I’m the churches I have served I’ve always invited questions and promised to answer them at the Bible study/fellowship on Wednesday nights. Sometimes this led to quite active and fascinating discussions.

OK imagine a church where after the sermon people are allowed to ask questions about what was said. What terrible things would ensue because of this?