Mark Swartz

@patriottakes @realBrandonGill Brandon: no religious ceremonies and lakes! So no baptisms? Brandon: NO WAIT NOT LIKE THAT!

@realBrandonGill You are against baptism?

I don’t want Third World religious ceremonies taking place in my community’s public waterways.

@WatchChad We used to have a VP that talked AND acted like a Christian, and the MAGA Christians tried to hang him on January 6th

Isn't it nice to have a VP who openly and unashamedly talks about the Christian faith? "I want to say to all of my fellow American Christians, but particularly those serving in the Gulf, that I wish you all a very blessed Easter, a very blessed Holy Week" Pretty cool!

@PastorPhilBCC @MikeWingerii Went do you want to hide their sin? Christian ministers ESPECIALLY ones that grift from the public like Sean need to be publicly exposed so the public they grift off of knows what's up. How else is Susie Maga in Idaho going to find out about Sean's lies?

@MikeWingerii I really miss the Bible teacher and apologist Mike Winger. Why this switch to Evangelical Christian church investigative journalism. True Paul wrote corrective letters to churches but he didn't publish them for the Roman, Jewish, or Greek public.

This was hilarious but there’s a deeper issue. The hilarious part is how easy it was to catch Sean Feucht lying to everyone in order to make himself look like a victim (like Jussie Smollett but MAGA). The deeper issue is… Sean Feucht, the famous worship leader with multiple ministries, friend of Shawn Bolz, lies a lot. Yesterday’s example of him lying about me and Julie was merely a convenient one. I quickly discovered it was not a message someone sent Sean but really a message that he sent himself, possibly because he knows I’m going to make a video about him outlining many lies and manipulations in his ministry. The issues I will uncover are serious. He even got a community note. But it doesn’t currently lay out all the reasons for it being fake. So, here’s a list. 1. Check marks indicate a sent message on WhatsApp, not a received one. Only senders see check marks on messages. 2. The praying hands, font, and timestamp are also from WhatsApp. 3. The color has been drained (see the praying hands which would normally have blue sleeves) likely as a way of hiding the green color inherent in a sent message. 4. The message is dumb, implying Sean Feucht wrote it. I have also attached a message I was recently “sent” warning me about Sean Feucht attacking me.

@greglaurie This was the guy that owned slaves and taught that was ok by God right?

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@sola_chad Just for the record, in his later life he would say things like "every real true Christian will vote for Trump" which seems to go against justification by faith alone

@EWErickson I will say, the lens you view the world through is really fascinating to me. You can make posts like this that seem like you recognize the bad actors pretty clearly, but then knowingly lie about other stuff. I assumed it was playing both sides for engagement but maybe not I dunno

Come, friends, it is story time. Let me tell you a story. As most of you know, my wife has stage 4 lung cancer. With metronomic regularity, my wife has to have scans of her lungs to make sure her tumors are not growing, and the chemo she is on is working. I tend to forget when the scan days are. They stress me out. Then I wind up forgetting I have to be off work and take my wife to her appointments. Twice, the way I remembered scan days is because @Mike_Pence reached out to say that he and Karen had been praying for Christy and knew her scan appointments were coming up. Yep, the former Vice President of the United States, once while actively serving as VP, was my reminder that my wife's scans were upcoming. He and his wife are regular prayer warriors for my wife. I say all this to note that in the past few weeks, finally having gotten tired of the relentless bullying from the very online @BaptistLeaders E.D. @WilliamWolfe towards other Christians, I spoke out, and now William regularly tries to shame me into not speaking up and not speaking out about faith issues. I have an actual (largely harmless) stalker and William is rapidly becoming a second one. William even attacked the former President of the Southern Baptist Convention for pointing out @BaptistLeaders could have worked to resolve issues at a Baptist convention, but instead chose to complain while doing nothing. A few days ago, while publicly and privately chastizing me as a slob, hypocrite, and fake Christian who needs to repent, William sent me the note attached hereto. Notice how, for a guy worried about Christianity, it was all political. He is not really concerned about my faith or Christianity. He's concerned about politics, which is why he is not very successful operating within the church. And, frankly, I'd rather be on an island with "Mike Pence types" who pray for my wife than on an island with the theobros who keep failing to turn Christ's church into an avenue for politics. When you hold yourself out as some sort of godly Christian and think Mike Pence, an actual Christian of strong convictions, is a pejorative, you are actually the problem. The @AmReformer project is doomed to fail with very hyperonline guys like William leading @BaptistLeaders because actual Christians can smell the grift and sense the heartlessness of someone way more worried about Twitter ratios and "Never Trump" than the work of the church. If your project is measuring success by the metrics of how many times you have ratioed someone, you are not actually living in the real world and need to touch some grass. It actually is funny the money spent on a project to change the church that has actually done more to alienate churches from the underlying project just because the face of the project spends more time in rank jackassery towards Christians than any other group.

@GBNT1952 I'm blocking Green Beret because he is lying here. The Democrat TSA bills were clean and it's clear he knows this and is just trying to spread propaganda

Uh… yeah, Democrats introduced 7 bills to “fund TSA,” and each one was laced with defund ICE riders and border sabotage requirements. Republicans passed clean full DHS funding twice. Dems blocked it. Twice. Now they cry “Republicans blocked TSA!” This is textbook gaslighting while Americans miss their flights and have their livelihoods negatively affected so that these morons can post more lies and nonsense…

@butzj12530 @IlaganRobin @TheMuppetPastor They absolutely hate him because he highlights the evil in mainstream evangelicals

@IlaganRobin @TheMuppetPastor There is no hate for the man. He just needs to repent for spewing false doctrine.

His entire schtick is to capitalize on biblical ignorance. He is a caricature of what leftists think a Christian should be. And sadly, it works, because many remain ignorant about their own faith traditions.

@dandarling Do you think your Dad is qualified to lead the department of homeland security? Because that's the point being made, not that plumbers aren't smart. The blind partisanship to not see how trump just picks unqualified friends to lead country is ridiculous

Man I hate this stuff . Maybe because my dad is a retired plumber. Guys who run businesses have smarts and intellect that are invaluable.

@edstetzer @SermonShots @EricGeiger Sexuality is a first order issue for evangelicals, not Christians

Why sexuality is a first order issue for Christians, even while it is not mentioned in the ancient creeds. A @SermonShots clip from Ed's recent interview with @EricGeiger Here's an article on why sexuality is not an "agree to disagree" issue. buff.ly/VW6m23Q

@SteelKing4Ever @MrsCMFrancis They always ignore that part of what he says when they try and excuse away this evil

@MrsCMFrancis So what about where he says “And if it would not be within God’s will to do so, stop him by any means necessary,” That is not hoping he comes to Jesus, or praying he comes to repentance.

Indeed. I pray that all of those whom I know will die to themselves and be crucified with Christ

@russelltaylor_ @tomascol Russell, I'm sad to say that based on this thread it doesn't seem like you'll be nice. What if I lead them to Christ and they decide to be paedobaptists? You can hardly stand them you said! I'll find a wise AND kind person for my newly believing friend.

@NoSup4u @tomascol Ok. Well, if you lead anyone to Christ and they need some teaching on baptism, I’m happy to help:) I’ll be nice

If I were a paedobaptist I would be embarrassed by this & terrified by the expressed "covenantal logic" of Bird. As a credobaptist, I appreciate the this as more grist for my mill.

@adelethelaptop Maybe they're showing us the fruit of their tribes Christianity

I can’t fathom why they think it’s appropriate to laugh at someone sharing their testimony. I understand that Ben isn’t saved and so don’t expect him to act like a Christian. But don’t Klavan and Knowles claim to be Christian? They’re like the disciples vs Mary Magdalene.

@EWErickson Erick I appreciate your self reflection here and support it. Kudos and God speed on this journey

Who you platform and why you platform them matters. Standing for timeless principles does not mean you’ll avoid cranks. But you sure do lessen the risk of bat crap crazy people who may draw a crowd, but then finger paint a conspiracy. Discernment and judgment and character and principle all really do matter. Too much of the right, having abandoned those things, now reaps the whirlwind of the clout-chasing conspiracists. ewerickson.substack.com/p/reaping-the-…

@RHelfenbein I don't understand why Trump supported his election, told us he was such an amazing man and then hired him to be director of counter terrorism. Do you think Trump is behind this plan to divide conservatives, maybe he's trying to push the Christians out?

All of this points to a design play by very dark actors attempting to split the conservative world in two. I don’t know Joe Kent, but I do know this, he is not trustworthy nor a credible witness. He is promoting a dangerous and unAmerican Soviet-era ideology

@russelltaylor_ @tomascol The argument you just made only makes sense if credo or paedo baptism is part of the gospel, do you see that? And I know you don't believe that, so I'll point you back to my previous post. The arrogance of fundamentalists about things like baptism turns people away from Jesus

An unbelieving world doesn’t reject Jesus because you aren’t nice. They think you’re arrogant because of all the religions of the world you have the audacity to think you’re the one who got it right. You see, somewhere in your theology you’re going to have to decide where you’re right and others are wrong. You’ll never “nice” someone to Christ. Sooner or later you have to communicate a dogmatic position on the gospel and they’ll be responsible to submit to your beliefs on that, or not.

@russelltaylor_ @tomascol unbelieving world doesn't care about our staff on baptism but they do care that we're arrogant hard hearted people and they have no interest in following Jesus because of that.

@russelltaylor_ @tomascol For sure. Wasn't pointing out that Tom wasn't right about his doctrine, was pointing out the wrongness of his heart. Those kinds of Christians, the ones who are so sure they're right about everything, are so hard to be in fellowship with. Especially when the 1/

@russelltaylor_ @tomascol I am thankful we have smart self assured men like yourself who just KNOW they are right where guys like Origen and Augustine, and John Calvin and RC Sproul were guys who it is so painful for you to fellowship with. Honestly I see where Tom Ascol gets it from.

Listen, I was being lighthearted. But seriously, paedobaptists have taken one of the ordinances of the church and destroyed it. Entire generations can live and die in a paedobaptist church and never observe the biblical ordinance of baptism. We love our paedobaptist brethren, but the actual damage they’ve done to the doctrine of baptism probably deserves a much harsher treatment than they get from most reformed Baptist who are so kindred with much of their theology. I’m eternally indebted to many of them for much in theology, but their doctrine of baptism is a massive and serious error that takes great charity to fellowship with. If anything we’ve been too patient. Our Baptist forefathers paid a much higher price at the hands of the “loving” paedobaptist. We haven’t gotten our theology “perfectly right”, but we are dead right on baptism. Period.

@Vicar1973 Totally agree. Getting children out of these unhealthy marriages is so important. When parents can't live in peace, divorce ends up better for the kids. Thank you for this, so many in the church just fight for couples to stay together with no regard for the children

Children who grow up in homes where there is a lot of marital conflict, even low key marital conflict, almost always struggle with anxiety and relational bonding when they get older. Having a happy marriage will cover many parental shortcomings because the child has a secure foundation. God has established spousal roles, domains, and an authority structure in marriage precisely so that conflict can be minimized in the home. When love and respect flow back and forth between spouses, when there is joy and peace characterizing the marital relationship, the children are put in a position to thrive. Again, marital faithfulness and joy can cover many parental failings. To come at the same thing another way, many problems that manifest in the children are actually due to marital issues rather than simply parenting issues. When husband and wife are at odds, it inevitably bleeds over into the rest of the family. Marital dissension produces anxiety and rebellion in the child. Marital strife creates a toxic family culture. A wife who disobeys her husband cannot really expect her children to obey her. A husband who fails to lead his wife will also fail in leading his children.