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@ministrymisfit I didn’t think about including the ‘blackballed by’ steps as I h

@ministrymisfit I didn’t think about including the ‘blackballed by’ steps as I have a few of those too. Looks like you went back and forth a few times before that. God is shaking up the institutional

@pastherandie Does the Nazarene church differ significantly from the others?

@thebibleismetal What is the origin of the Church of God of Prophecy? I haven’t

@thebibleismetal What is the origin of the Church of God of Prophecy? I haven’t heard of that before.

@MaplesCR @presbycrusader @RealDavidReece Does your church have men speaking out

@MaplesCR @presbycrusader @RealDavidReece Does your church have men speaking out when the pastor is speaking? Do the students all speak when the professor is speaking? Paul was dealing with someone w

@seditiouslibel2 @_samuelbrady @RealDavidReece A pastor is never called the head. Jesus is called the head b/c as the saviour of His church He is the source of her life. Adam is called the head b/c Eve was created from his flesh and bone. The husband...

@seditiouslibel2 @_samuelbrady @RealDavidReece A pastor is never called the head. Jesus is called the head b/c as the saviour of His church He is the source of her life. Adam is called the head b/c Ev

@MaplesCR @RealDavidReece What is an ‘effeminate’ church? Is it one that shows t

@MaplesCR @RealDavidReece What is an ‘effeminate’ church? Is it one that shows the fruits of the Holy Spirit—gentleness, patience, kindness, love, peace, joy, etc?

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals Do you think women should be allowed to be pasto

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals Do you think women should be allowed to be pastors? How about elders? How about leaders in the church? How about ruling their homes?

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul actually says that he wished they were all as he was which would mean—if true—that no one in the church would be having children. He’s not overturning being fruitful and multiplying, but transforming it to building the church...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul actually says that he wished they were all as he was which would mean—if true—that no one in the church would be having children. He’s not overturning being fruitful and multi

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I’m not pressuring them either way (though I think they might feel otherwise sometimes as I love children). I don’t see the need to have children to build the church or to increase my financial well being or to fix society while i...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I’m not pressuring them either way (though I think they might feel otherwise sometimes as I love children). I don’t see the need to have children to build the church or to increase

@pauldirks @KaeleyT We certainly have a lot of M/F confusion in our culture toda

@pauldirks @KaeleyT We certainly have a lot of M/F confusion in our culture today, but I don’t really see what vacuum you are referring to except perhaps how your church has a vacuum of female leaders

@immrbloo @Jondaphemp @Win10acc @trail_twinkle Thanks for explaining more clearl

@immrbloo @Jondaphemp @Win10acc @trail_twinkle Thanks for explaining more clearly. So I could be a member of your church but not follow the great commission? I run a Bible study at my work for 25 yea

@immrbloo @Jondaphemp @Win10acc @trail_twinkle Could I become a member of your c

@immrbloo @Jondaphemp @Win10acc @trail_twinkle Could I become a member of your church and reject Calvinism?

@Hotrodchriscam @Stellar52537270 @smashbaals If the founder of the church and th

@Hotrodchriscam @Stellar52537270 @smashbaals If the founder of the church and the apostles didn’t arm themselves then you have the answer for the church.

@Stellar52537270 @Hotrodchriscam @smashbaals Where do you see the early church f

@Stellar52537270 @Hotrodchriscam @smashbaals Where do you see the early church fighting against the Romans? Did Jesus bear a sword to protect Himself and His disciples? The second amendment is fine.

@Stellar52537270 @Hotrodchriscam @smashbaals These freedoms are protected by the

@Stellar52537270 @Hotrodchriscam @smashbaals These freedoms are protected by the military and constitution not individuals arming themselves. By all means arm yourself. But let’s not pretend that the

@Silly_Sapphic @smashbaals The Biblical first century church would be shocked at

@Silly_Sapphic @smashbaals The Biblical first century church would be shocked at how different our modern churches are and how everyone are just spectators.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-13

@smashbaals If churches want to grow, they should follow 1Co 14 and encourage al

@smashbaals If churches want to grow, they should follow 1Co 14 and encourage all to participate according to the giftings God has given them.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-13

@HELPmissionsSA @immrbloo I’m pretty sure the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t teac

@HELPmissionsSA @immrbloo I’m pretty sure the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t teach Calvinism…

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-10

@AletheiaHS @CherylSchatz @Glory2God777 @ManassehRJones @subq @immrbloo Can you

@AletheiaHS @CherylSchatz @Glory2God777 @ManassehRJones @subq @immrbloo Can you give me some idea of which churches or groups that are acceptable to you whom you would agree to fellowship with?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-10

@AletheiaHS @CherylSchatz @Glory2God777 @ManassehRJones @subq @immrbloo Is every

@AletheiaHS @CherylSchatz @Glory2God777 @ManassehRJones @subq @immrbloo Is every other church aside from yours false?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-09

@AletheiaHS @immrbloo Grew up evangelical free, then Pentecostal (PAOC), then Calvary Chapel which went non-denom, then went Pentecostal (ACOP). When we left that church, went to a Baptist (Baptist General Conference), then we went to a Reformed Chur...

@AletheiaHS @immrbloo Grew up evangelical free, then Pentecostal (PAOC), then Calvary Chapel which went non-denom, then went Pentecostal (ACOP). When we left that church, went to a Baptist (Baptist Ge

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-09

@AletheiaHS @immrbloo A white western boy? So you don't use Greek Lexicons? Yes

@AletheiaHS @immrbloo A white western boy? So you don't use Greek Lexicons? Yes I go to church, silly. Your ad hominem doesn't advance any sort of argument.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-05

@ymmotrojam Because the church did not exist in the OT?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-04

@_jonbowlin What? No one is replacing the body of Christ with Israel. What a str

@_jonbowlin What? No one is replacing the body of Christ with Israel. What a strange thing to think we are saying…that God has a plan for ethnic Israel meaning replacing the church. Bizarre!

@Crystalisives @covapologetics Well, even Peter said his church doesn’t agree wi

@Crystalisives @covapologetics Well, even Peter said his church doesn’t agree with his view on these things, but I also have the same questions. Even the leadership of my church which is egalitarian c

@MissindaCouv @covapologetics I mean Jesus the man who appointed the 12 disciple

@MissindaCouv @covapologetics I mean Jesus the man who appointed the 12 disciples (apostles) and founded His church.

Peter @covapologetics claims that no-one before the New Covenant claims that Jes

Peter @covapologetics claims that no-one before the New Covenant claims that Jesus was a literal pastor of the church (see comments for reference post). Is Jesus a literal pastor of the church?

@covapologetics @subq Hm. In that case, we as the church are all topologically m

@covapologetics @subq Hm. In that case, we as the church are all topologically married given we are part of the typological relationship you mentioned. Jesus wasn’t a literal pastor (ie. shepherd). N

@covapologetics It’s good that your church is tolerant of differences on these s

@covapologetics It’s good that your church is tolerant of differences on these sorts of things. Thanks for clarifying that you aren’t aware of any that agree with you on this matter. Why do you think

@covapologetics I appreciate you sharing grace with my mistake. Which church ta

@covapologetics I appreciate you sharing grace with my mistake. Which church takes your position that you are aware of? How about your church?

@Crystalisives @covapologetics I’m still curious which church(es) actually take

@Crystalisives @covapologetics I’m still curious which church(es) actually take this view and disqualify their pastor if he becomes a widower while serving as their pastor.

@subq @covapologetics He is overliteralizing the passage. Paul himself wasn’t ma

@subq @covapologetics He is overliteralizing the passage. Paul himself wasn’t married and would be DQ’d by his reading. So would Jesus! And so now I’m curious to find out how many Particular Baptist

@covapologetics I see. Would you like me to change it? If so and before I do, are you suggesting that you are merely claiming your personal opinion on this issue and admit that it is sufficiently unclear so that most Baptist churches don’t agree wit...

@covapologetics I see. Would you like me to change it? If so and before I do, are you suggesting that you are merely claiming your personal opinion on this issue and admit that it is sufficiently unc

Peter @covapologetics has informed me that the traditional Baptist view is that

Peter @covapologetics has informed me that the traditional Baptist view is that pastors whose wife dies have to step down as they become disqualified (see comment for details). Does your church disqu

If women were entirely excluded from church leadership or service roles, Paul co

If women were entirely excluded from church leadership or service roles, Paul could have specified it. Instead, ‘likewise’ supports the idea that women are included in the qualifications being discuss

Church leadership isn’t about being the sole decision-maker, a president or restricting service if the person is only able to have one child. God gifts and calls people to serve, and they should be allowed and recognized by the body, not restricted...

Church leadership isn’t about being the sole decision-maker, a *president* or restricting service if the person is only able to have one child. God gifts and calls people to serve, and they should be

Further, by encouraging people to remain single (1Co 7:7-8,32-35), is Paul encou

Further, by encouraging people to remain single (1Co 7:7-8,32-35), is Paul encouraging them to become disqualified from being elders and deacons? Paul says that those who are single have more time to

1Co 7:7-8 question

Paul acts as a bishop over multiple churches, writing them letters (multiple in

Paul acts as a bishop over multiple churches, writing them letters (multiple in several cases) and gets involved in everything a pastor would do. And the fact that you admit the apostle Peter is also

Paul was clearly both an apostle and an overseer. His letters are pastoral (esp 1Co, 2Co and Gal), he ministered in Ephesus for ~3 yrs (Ac 20:31). He was not there merely to plant a church and appoint elders, but spent significant time shepherding,...

Paul was clearly *both* an apostle and an overseer. His letters are pastoral (esp 1Co, 2Co and Gal), he ministered in Ephesus for ~3 yrs (Ac 20:31). He was not there merely to plant a church and appoi

Ac 20:31 debate

@OrthodoxWario @heatheraaj78 @MikeWingerii What church dogmatics are you referri

@OrthodoxWario @heatheraaj78 @MikeWingerii What church dogmatics are you referring to specifically?

@heatheraaj78 @OrthodoxWario @MikeWingerii There would be less if they followed

@heatheraaj78 @OrthodoxWario @MikeWingerii There would be less if they followed the apostolic church outlined in the NT. It doesn’t occur to them somehow that secondary differences are not to cause di

@ScottCross_8 I heard a church was focusing on making leadership proportionate t

@ScottCross_8 I heard a church was focusing on making leadership proportionate to the mix of ‘races’ in the congregation. Sounds like a great idea until you realize that by staring at race you inevita

@Conscientious43 @_jonbowlin However, that there is a great multitude of believers who come out of the tribulation does not mean that God doesn’t rapture the church prior to the tribulation. Both are true. Yet many come to belief in the tribulation a...

@Conscientious43 @_jonbowlin However, that there is a great multitude of believers who come out of the tribulation does not mean that God doesn’t rapture the church prior to the tribulation. Both are

Re 20:4 debate

@slumbles @MattChancey @RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic The Roman

@slumbles @MattChancey @RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic The Roman Catholic Church has many things wrong. And who is Jim?

@OrthodoxWario @MikeWingerii They only inform us of their hermeneutic. Also, ju

@OrthodoxWario @MikeWingerii They only inform us of their hermeneutic. Also, just as the Bible has to be interpreted, so do the church fathers.

@MikeWingerii ...and also, while the writings of the church fathers are helpful,

@MikeWingerii ...and also, while the writings of the church fathers are helpful, they are not what is inspired.

@_jonbowlin @slow_down_Jess Re 20:4-6 speaks of the first resurrection of believ

@_jonbowlin @slow_down_Jess Re 20:4-6 speaks of the first resurrection of believers reigning with Christ during the millennium. This resurrection and reign have clearly not occurred as it requires th

Re 20:4-6 general

@_jonbowlin @slow_down_Jess Partially, yes. Salvation for the remaining Israelites and judgment for those gathered against them at Armageddon. However, in the Millennium when Jesus reigns from Jerusalem, there are still nations⎯and the church will be...

@_jonbowlin @slow_down_Jess Partially, yes. Salvation for the remaining Israelites and judgment for those gathered against them at Armageddon. However, in the Millennium when Jesus reigns from Jerusal

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-29

@detfan10084382 @MarkGrote Hm. I thought family proceeded the church? At any rate, if what you are saying is the case, then we need to make sure that what we think is the way the church is setup is actually what God intended. Did God intend only Je...

@detfan10084382 @MarkGrote Hm. I thought family proceeded the church? At any rate, if what you are saying is the case, then we need to make sure that what we think is the way the church is setup is a

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-29

@detfan10084382 @MarkGrote I don't think it was to establish a uniquely Gentile

@detfan10084382 @MarkGrote I don't think it was to establish a uniquely Gentile church, but to extend the church to reach the Gentiles. Right? In the same way, males first doesn't mean males only.