Tom Ascol @tomascol

This is most of the inaugural class of elder-qualified, church-recommended men of @FoundersSem. Pray for them, that the Lord will grant them Sharp minds Warm hearts Steel spines

"Theological liberalism kills churches through bad doctrine. Functional liberalism kills them just as surely through failed courage." My latest piece for @BaptistLeaders centerforbaptistleadership.org/sbc-orlando-is…

@jacobarthurNC @mattvanswol @FoundersMin 💯👊🏼🙏🏼

@mattvanswol I'd recommend watching #ByWhatStandard from @FoundersMin and @tomascol. That'll help explain a lot. Particularly within the Southern Baptist Convention, which was really the last denomination to deal with this...

I could use some help... I came back to church after years away and I'm still figuring a lot of it out... but what is going on with the "Christian Leftists"???? These are people who know Scripture better than I do... but the SAME PEOPLE turn around and tell me a kid in elementary school can know 100% that they were born in the wrong body. That puberty blockers are healthcare. That get flustered and extremely angry at any reasonable question I throw at them about it. That actually to question any of it is a form of sin in someway? These people will literally say the church is too White. As if whiteness itself is a big problem or a sin and that we need to repent of being white, and fix it in a room full of people who showed up to worship Jesus. Can someone explain this to me? How on earth does this make any sense from someone who is supposed to be a Christian? How did these Christians get to this place? How did a faith built on the goodness of creation, the dignity of the body, the truth that every person bears the image of God regardless of skin, end up getting SO sucked into these Leftist slogans? What I notice is that every position the Christian left holds happens to track PERFECTLY aligns with the cultural arguments of the Leftist political movement. Every single one. Trans kids. Race. Sexuality. Borders. Guns. Climate. And they'll use the Bible, in genuinely bizarre fashion and slogans to uphold these political beliefs. Like "love thy neighbor" for example, to say that illegal immigrants didn't do anything wrong. "The least of these" somehow means trans kids or something? "Turn the other cheek" somehow means that criminals should never be held accountable for crimes. It seems, and I could be wrong, that a LOT of Christians are using politics to shape their faith. Not the other way around Maybe I'm missing something. I'm willing to be wrong. But from where I'm sitting it looks FAR LESS like Christians are wrestling with hard questions and more like a version of Christianity that has agreed to push forward every argument the culture wants it to... What's going on with the Christian church??????

All of life is theological.

"Benevolence requires that we should seek to please our neighbor for his good; but it often happens, that, in promoting his good, we must give him pain instead of pleasure; and it often happens, that we must give pain to individuals, in promoting the public good." —John Dagg

"It is lawful for me to take the life of an assailant, when my own life cannot be otherwise preserved from his injurious & unprovoked assault." —John Dagg

John Dagg on public morality: "The delivery of lectures, and the publication of books and prints, which have a tendency to undermine the morals of society, ought to be prohibited by law. These have their effect on the young and thoughtless, before better instruction can be applied; and fatal mischief is done by corrupting the imagination and inflaming the passions, mischief which cannot be afterwards undone."

@samuel_costner You get used to it.

@tomascol How bout them skeeters?

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John Dagg on political theology: "Human governments, domestic, civil, & ecclesiastical, are bound to conform to the divine will, the supreme rule of right. We know that a general regard to human happiness is according to the divine will; & governments are therefore bound to seek the happiness of the governed."

@MichaelCarlino 🤣💯

@tomascol What a location for "watery bigots" to set up shop.

The Lord will not allow the work that He begins in His people to be overthrown even by the most severe attacks of our enemy. founders.org/articles/lesso…

The Most Loving Thing You Can Do Is Stop Evil. Listen to the whole episode where @tomascol and @GundenGraham discuss assassination, corruption, & social Decay and how to understand the times. youtube.com/watch?v=Ypi3ip…

@merelyjwright @jaredhmoore @TomBuck 💯

Check the date on this. I've been noting @jaredhmoore's work on the topic. @TomBuck should be recognized as well. Tom (and Jared) are constantly attacked for seeing reality by those who enable deceivers like Allberry. aomin.org/aoblog/homosex… (1/)

@thisisfoster @AJKocman 💯

This is a blockhead statement. This isn’t about saying “I told you so.” It’s about the fact that we warned the church this was a dangerous departure from Scripture, that it would lead to real consequences. And when we said it, we were treated like we were harsh, unloving, or theologically off. We weren’t. We were doing our job. We warned. That warning was ignored, dismissed, or mocked. This is the same pattern again. There are people who want to act like they’re more loving, more understanding, because they refuse to connect theology to behavioral outcomes. They’re not more compassionate. They’re just unwilling to do the hard work of pastoral ministry.

Tom Buck @TomBuck warned us years ago about unbiblical views on sexuality being taught & platformed by evangelical leaders & institutions. And he was derided & dismissed for it. But he was right. aomin.org/aoblog/homosex…

@thisisfoster Correct. @TomBuck was one of the most careful & thorough critics of his views, & was excoriated for it by his supposed betters. Tragic all the way around.

People warned about Allberry’s position on same sex attraction for years. It all was so obvious.

His leadership in Florida has been a tremendous blessing & a fulfillment of 1 Timothy 2:1-4. It’s been an honor to pray for him throughout both his terms. Thank you, @GovRonDeSantis!

What a kindness of God to allow me to meet Pastor Sava recently & learn a little about how the Lord is using him in pastoral ministry! I did not know this story until he told it just before I spoke. SDG!

A pastor & church who ask their association to abide by its stated principles is kicked out for being troublesome. It’s not just a Canadian problem.

@tim__stephens Thank you for your faithful example!

Our church was voted out of the Fellowship yesterday. My quick response: fairviewbaptistchurch.ca/another-three-… More to come next week...