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The Church Under Fire Part 1
- By martinlb
- Deeper Fellowship
- 7 Replies
Just as a point of clarification, it looks like you meant to quote a different section of scripture; 1 Tim 3:12 is dealing with what sort of person a leader in the Church needs to be.Everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted (1 Timothy 3:12). We're in the Last days, being victimized in a church or put out of a church for good behaviour is commonplace now. God Bless
I'm hoping to be helpful here and my main thoughts are about how believers, just as can anyone, can find ourselves drawn toward various topics that can overshadow our beliefs and take more room than is good, and comes from a healthy balance. I'm thinking as an example, of one church member whose worldview became centered on, as he'd put it, the devil. Trying to help him see how he wasn't focusing where we need to focus didn’t get anywhere. He'd talk about how if we weren't careful we'd end up in the devil's back pocket - not seeing that that was exactly where he was placing himself.
Persecution, victimization, and being mistreated isn't where we're told to have our attention. Following that path will not lead to anything good or healthy. Those things can certainly come, but focusing on them can also ruin our joy and our usefulness. They can even lead to a view of ourselves that's too much about us.
We can recognize, and even take pleasure in, not being part of this world. We don't fit with a broken world under the authority of the most evil entity in existence. While recognizing those facts, remaining focused on God and the good things he does is our mandate. That's what we're specifically told to focus on, and that's our message to a hurt and broken world.
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Young Men, the Wild Places Are for You
- By BassLine
- GEN Z (1999 to 2012)
- 2 Replies
Works for old men, too.
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Male Accountability Thread
- Struggles with Sexuality
- 138 Replies
His mercies are new every day!!! Thank you Jesus!!! Move forward from it, ask God to renew your mind day by day.I've really been trying hard for years to save self-pleasure for when there are genuine sexual urges. Last night was a rare slip-up for me.
God IS working in you every day even if you don't see the results. Stay faithful brother
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Why Christians can't look away from Israel
- By jonojim1337
- General Politics
- 17 Replies
I am going to come back to you because this is a large subject. The area west of the Jordan corresponds Joshua’s conquests, so I don’t think the map you have given here is accurate, because I don’t see how 31 kingdoms could possibly fit into that little area as shown.
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Scholar wins Grawemeyer Award for book on enslaved ghostwriters of the Bible
- By Michie
When many Christians think about the authors of the Bible, some of the names that tend to stand out are Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter and Paul.
In her 2024 book, God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible, biblical scholar Candida Moss recognizes the contribution of many enslaved Christians and ghostwriters, like Tertius, who wrote down Paul’s letters to the Romans.
“I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord,” he wrote in Romans 16:22.
Moss, who is the Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham, England, presents the significant role enslaved people played in spreading the Gospel, working as scribes and missionaries.
“While he’s one of the few enslaved Jesus followers whose name is preserved in the New Testament, Tertius’s is not the only set of enslaved hands to have played a formative role in the making of Christian Scripture,” Moss writes in the introduction of the book. “For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter, and Paul. But the truth is that the individuals behind these names, who were rewarded with sainthood for their work, did not write alone. In some meaningful ways, they did not write at all.”
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In her 2024 book, God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible, biblical scholar Candida Moss recognizes the contribution of many enslaved Christians and ghostwriters, like Tertius, who wrote down Paul’s letters to the Romans.
“I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord,” he wrote in Romans 16:22.
Moss, who is the Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham, England, presents the significant role enslaved people played in spreading the Gospel, working as scribes and missionaries.
“While he’s one of the few enslaved Jesus followers whose name is preserved in the New Testament, Tertius’s is not the only set of enslaved hands to have played a formative role in the making of Christian Scripture,” Moss writes in the introduction of the book. “For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter, and Paul. But the truth is that the individuals behind these names, who were rewarded with sainthood for their work, did not write alone. In some meaningful ways, they did not write at all.”
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Scholar wins Grawemeyer Award for book on enslaved ghostwriters of the Bible
In her 2024 book, God s Ghostwriters Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible, biblical scholar Candida Moss recognizes the contributions of many enslaved Christians and ghostwriters, like
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