Good Thoughts

[subllibrm]

For a long time, I thought I understood how Christians were supposed to engage the culture: Speak louder. Fight harder. Push back.

If things were getting worse, it just meant we needed to be more aggressive, more strategic, more influential. But the more I tried, and the more I saw other Christians doing the same, I couldn't deny the obvious reality that it wasn't working.

Oh, there would be short-term successes and flashes of hope. But the trajectory of the culture wasn't changing. And I became convinced that at best, we were spinning our wheels. At worst, we were making things worse.

The deeper I got into Scripture while writing this book, the more uncomfortable realization I kept running into: the approach I had adopted wasn't really coming from Jesus.

It was coming from the world. The world's approaches, the world's strategies, the world's obsession with power and politics. That's a dangerous place for a Christian to build from, especially when we're talking about how to change hearts, minds, and culture.

- Peter Heck

 

[Ransom]

The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. (2 Cor. 10:4-6)​

As best as I understand what this passage means, it's that spiritual warfare is carried out by combatting worldly opinions with effective apologetics. That sounds a lot like "speak louder, fight harder, push back" to me.

I'm not sure you can say it's not working when it's divinely mandated. Perhaps "success" isn't measured by the number of libs we own.

 

[subllibrm]

The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. (2 Cor. 10:4-6)​

As best as I understand what this passage means, it's that spiritual warfare is carried out by combatting worldly opinions with effective apologetics. That sounds a lot like "speak louder, fight harder, push back" to me.

I'm not sure you can say it's not working when it's divinely mandated. Perhaps "success" isn't measured by the number of libs we own.

I hardly think that "black trannies" can be considered apologetics.

 

[subllibrm]

The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. (2 Cor. 10:4-6)​

As best as I understand what this passage means, it's that spiritual warfare is carried out by combatting worldly opinions with effective apologetics. That sounds a lot like "speak louder, fight harder, push back" to me.

I'm not sure you can say it's not working when it's divinely mandated. Perhaps "success" isn't measured by the number of libs we own.

It's not working because "owning the libs" has become the goal over the divine mandate to be salt and light.

 

[Ekklesian]

I hardly think that "black trannies" can be considered apologetics.

OMG...let it go.

Do you have a tranny kid or something?

 

[subllibrm]

OMG...let it go.

Do you have a tranny kid or something?

No, but I know several personally and they need the Lord, not your scorn.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

No, but I know several personally and they need the Lord, not your scorn.

So do I.
You’re obsessed!

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

I hardly think that "black trannies" can be considered apologetics.

So someone said black trannies and you’re completely obsessed with insinuating that anyone who argues for the Biblical principle of men are men and women are women are Christian Nationalists?

I smell obsession!

 

[aleshanee]

I hardly think that "black trannies" can be considered apologetics.

No, but I know several personally and they need the Lord, not your scorn.

i remember one getting kicked in the knards once after walking into the womens restroom at a shopping mall.... he was not black... but he was a big guy.. with a fuzzy face .. mostly bald head.... dressed in shorts 3 sizes too small and a dirty t shirt.. ... he had been yelled at by several girls in there already and told to leave... but he refused... and began walking toward one of them... . .

so one girl behind him applied the treatment i mentioned above and another did a reverse sweep kicking his legs out from under him and dropped him to the floor... ... after that a mob of young women began kicking him anywhere they could access until his screams brought security running into the restroom.... . ...

end result of the ordeal was he got arrested for criminal tresspass... and taken away in a police car.... he told the police his name was ginger.. ... but his drivers license said something else and indicated a gender that we all clearly saw - due to his extra small and extra tight shorts..... .

so tell me.... how should that situation have been handled by the women in that restroom?.. ..

what would the subllibrms subtle approach be to what most of us in there saw clearly as a physical threat?.... ..

i know what would happen if all that happened today.... we would have all been arrested... ....probably even those of us who did not take an active part.....and he would have been painted as the victim........ . but this was a few years before democrats took over the thought processes of previously sensible people and forced a woke ideology onto everybody....