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Mon, Mar 11 2013 16:47:13

when preston shared a haphazard sermonette on twitter

On Monday, March 11, someone made a vague mention to Preston that Catholics were not Christians. The following series of thoughts ensued.

  1. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Is there anything more dangerous than an unchecked ‘plain reading of Scripture’? #fb
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 08:33:00
  2. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Clarification to my earlier tweet: I want to stress hat Scripture is not in a vacuum. Our 21st century eyes should be aided by context.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 09:30:45
  3. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    And those eyes should also be aided by the Holy Ghost. I just happen to think He likes history and meaning, too.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 09:31:07
  4. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Further, I have a lot of discomfort with language of “personal relationship with Jesus” that is based in a contrived prayer not [1/3]
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 09:43:31
  5. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    found in Scripture. A “personal relationship with Jesus” is an unfolding discovery of the life-giving presence of the Spirit in the [2/3]
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 09:44:04
  6. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    life of a believer. That has a beginning point, but let’s call journey itself the relationship. Relationships are not single events. [3/3]
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 09:44:44
  7. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Yes, that means I do think Catholic believers are “saved” even if I disagree with them doctrinally--and I think it’s silly to doubt that.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 09:47:11
  8. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    And I guess, while I’m on a roll here being super honest, I also think re-baptising is RIDICULOUS. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 09:49:11
  9. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Honour the history of a faith journey, allow the Holy Ghost to be made known through a life, do no relegate it to a day and time.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 09:49:42
  10. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Further, conservative theology HAS to figure out how to love LGBT community better. I’m about ready just to belong to LGBT affirming [1/2]
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:01:03
  11. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    churches, because even though I disagree, the sense of love for another person would be there. And that is part of the Gospel. [2/2]
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:01:28
  12. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Everyone should read the apocrypha. Not as “inspired Scripture” but inter-testamental context. People wrote between Malachi and Matthew.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:08:34
  13. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Have no problem receiving Communion alongside LGBT Christians. Communion is journeying into Christ-likeness, not already fully transformed.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:15:01
  14. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Also, conservative pro-life: until that means changing our positions on capital punishment and war, I’m not buying that you mean pro-life.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:18:48
  15. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    And until you say sin is infecting institutions, not just individual hearts, I don’t believe you care about sinners. Yes, people are [1/2]
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:19:21
  16. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    going to Hell. But people are already living in forms of Hell that we are ignoring because oppressive systems are demonic. [2/2]
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:19:46
  17. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    I wonder sometimes if Jesus would be taking a whip to our churches all the time. We look more like a marketplace than a house of prayer.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:26:33
  18. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Furthermore, extrapolating a passage in Romans to be about every government everywhere is RIDICULOUS. God does not “ordain” oppression.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:28:17
  19. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    God sent His Son to set captives free and overthrow the systemic sin of our world. That means slavery, inequality, anything that oppresses.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:29:11
  20. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    And He is still doing so. He is still breaking the bonds. He is still fighting. And that means, sometimes, grace is a roaring loud lion!
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:29:47
  21. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    So God be thanked for people who blog about child abuse being wrong. BECAUSE IT IS. BECAUSE GOD CARES THAT JUSTICE IS DONE.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:30:43
  22. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    God be thanked for people who blog about women being equal to men, BECAUSE THEY ARE. AND GOD CARES ABOUT THE PERSONHOOD OF HIS CREATION.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:31:53
  23. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    God be thanked for people who blog their way to countries of poverty, who uphold the oppressed, because GOD CARES ABOUT THE LEAST OF THESE.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:32:25
  24. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Words are power. His words are freedom-song. And words are stitched into actions are wound into beings are set forth into people. Gospel.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:33:04
  25. prestonyancey
    Preston@prestonyancey
    Sing freedom songs. Sing liberation. Sing of a King who is already victorious over Sin, over Death. And proclaim Him in small things. Sing.
    Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:33:51

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