P.R. Neider🐦‍🔥

@freemarketeer1 Bingo!

@Methodist_Prime “I trusted, I am trusting and I will trust.” if I don’t trust, faith is no longer & salvation can’t occur lest we want to say salvation is by something other than faith. This understanding is the most consistent with sola fide because it rightly understands what faith & time are

Sola fide doesn’t mean “a single prayer, one moment, done.” It means we’re justified by faith, but ‘faith’ isn’t a single event we complete and then set aside. It’s the posture we live in everyday at all moments. A thread

@Methodist_Prime My heart is strangely warmed

Wesleyan-Arminianism, the only ordo salutis that’s both theologically rigorous and pastorally viable.

@Briantheresolve Actually I just wrote a short post about this yesterday! 😆

@Briantheresolve Logically, but not chronologically

@plainstriumph Lame but understandable 😆

@Methodist_Prime I would but I hate watermelon

Peaches and Cream kind of evening

Sola fide, rightly understood is not “I believed on this date,” but “I am believing, right now, and this is the road I’m walking with God.” A journey held by grace from first breath to last. 7/7

This isn’t salvation by works. It’s salvation by grace, through a faith that’s alive and living things don’t stay still. A tree doesn’t become alive once and then stay small forever. It stays rooted and grows or it dies. 6/7

New article on the substack beginning to unpack Wesleyan soteriology. Check it out here open.substack.com/pub/reflection…

@NickQuient @DPGBehler I am a testament to that 😆

God is perfectly capable of creating creatures that get on His nerves.

“Logically, justification forms the foundation for the rest of salvation… We are not justified because we are God’s children and regenerated; we are adopted and renewed through justification. What God does for us precedes what he does in us.” (Bounds, Holiness, 319)

“abstinence from sin does not alone constitute holiness, but the perfect purification of the conscience” - Macarius the Great

Modern Protestants tend to measure their sanctification by what they’ve stopped doing. Macarius is pointing somewhere deeper, not just the absence of the act, but whether the conscience itself has been made clean. Much more thought provoking bar. 2/2

John Calvin, Johnathan Edwards