Josiah Young

@thecamelsneck @RaymondIbrahim5 Sign me up.

@RaymondIbrahim5 Can we make this happen? My bookshelf demands it!

For 3 years I've tied my case for increased financial transparency in the SBC to the need to restore trust. We're running a trust deficit--transparency & accountability are key to rebuilding it. So I am pleased to see both candidates for prez talking about accountability& trust

@PubPlanPosting @RealJohnDios Fully agreed.

@RealJohnDios Louis L’Amour is all we need.

He's right, it's ass.

@wrowclif Protestant coded.

Word art for the iconoclast in your life

@Inv3ntive15 Same, bro. Same.

I’m getting deported.

@MaineAnjous @AuronMacintyre told me Nigeria, I dunno if he’s pulling countries out of a hat or if haters all go to Nigeria.

@Inv3ntive15 Then I guess I'm being deported too. Do I get to pick where?

@plainstriumph Don’t worry, be hard to be friends if I’ve been deported to Nigeria.

@Inv3ntive15 I don’t know if we can be friends anymore. (I’ve only read The Road)

@Love_Thy_Hood Not a fan of overly verbose and dark books. I’m not a literary critic with refined tastes. Edgar Rice Burroughs is the greatest American author.

@Inv3ntive15 Some of these guys have never really shed the fedora.

@fde_enthusiast7 Or, they could just not make predictions. Most people are terrible at em.

People need to stand behind their predictions, not just hand wave and say “well nuh uh something could have happened”

@MaineAnjous I feel like you gotta enjoy to really appreciate greatness. Though I’m biased cause honestly I hate his books so I don’t appreciate him as a great novelist 😁

@Inv3ntive15 Can I appreciate him as a great novelist without enjoying his books?

@AuronMacintyre Going into exile.

@Inv3ntive15 Sorry brother, I’m sue Nigeria will be nice

@Elainebks @LowerLeavell Twitter is public, people chime in all the time. I figured I could answer your question.

@Inv3ntive15 @LowerLeavell But my question was TO the OP. Which he could quite easily have replied to.

I remember watching a team of elders stand up to an extremely abusive husband. They positionally and even physically stood firmly in between her and her abuse and said to him, "No more." The husband was furious but rather than being able to beat his wife, he directed his anger towards the elders for "breaking up his marriage." With firm masculine stubbornness designed to protect the vulnerable, they absorbed the verbal blow and threats and remained resolute. The elders, along with the police, would offer her protection because he had abdicated his husbandly role as her protectorate. They disciplined him out of the church for refusing repentance and made sure the wife was set up well with resources and benevolent care. I've actually seen this play out well several times. The protection of women from abuse is one of many unspoken reasons why I believe God designed elders/pastors to be men. Abused women need to see God's design for godly men to be protectors of the vulnerable most pointedly when their husbands are not. It is shameful for men to abdicate that God-given masculine responsibility of protecting the flock from abusive wolves.

When trust is low, transparency needs to be high. you don’t restore trust through lectures and PR. You restore trust through humility, integrity, accountability, and transparency.

@Elainebks @LowerLeavell Was perusing comments and saw a question that had a straightforward answer.

@Inv3ntive15 @LowerLeavell What made you take over from the OP?

@Elainebks @LowerLeavell Where the OP specifically mentioned that the police were involved.

@Inv3ntive15 @LowerLeavell What is this?

@Inv3ntive15 mighty big words there, josiah!

The Christians that have been most influential in my life have no idea what penal substitutionary atonement or Christus Victor mean, and no cohesive eschatology.

@WardoftheStates @OldHollowTree @fde_enthusiast7 Oh, like where all the dorks come from? I’m probably just the exception that proves the rule. 😀

@Inv3ntive15 @OldHollowTree @fde_enthusiast7 Missouri? ... More like... DORK CENTRAL!

I GOT YOUR MAP WITH LINES ON IT RIGHT HERE PAL!

@OldHollowTree @WardoftheStates @fde_enthusiast7 No arrows pointed at Missouri, I’m safe.

@WardoftheStates @fde_enthusiast7 😔