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  1. The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

    #faith
    #church
    #bible
    #charity

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  2. Did you know that you can donate to us from anywhere in the world? Just click this link, choose your payment method, and enter your desired amount in South African Rand: pos.snapscan.io/qr/UibjVgRd?ut #Church #Charity

  3. The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

    #faith
    #bible
    #church

    Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

  4. Don't forget about our next Zoom session, tonight at 18:30 SAST!

    We'll be learning about "Gratitude in the Storm". It's completely free, very informal, and anyone is welcome! We hope you'll consider joining us.

    Please use meeting ID 850 3616 5586, with passcode 300071.

    #church #faith

  5. Don't forget about our next Zoom session, tonight at 18:30 SAST!

    We'll be learning about "Gratitude in the Storm". It's completely free, very informal, and anyone is welcome! We hope you'll consider joining us.

    Please use meeting ID 850 3616 5586, with passcode 300071.

    #church #faith

  6. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 👞💅 In 1463, English Parliament restricted poulaine length by social rank, capping a centuries-long trend in late #medieval #Europe.

    The #shoes, stuffed to maintain their dramatic points, signaled wealth by making walking difficult, advertising freedom from manual labor. #Church leaders condemned the phallic silhouette as sinful vanity as post-Black Death social shifts spread the style widely.

    👉 zmescience.com/feature-post/hi

    #fashion #history #15thcentury #england #culture #style #footwear

  7. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 👞💅 In 1463, English Parliament restricted poulaine length by social rank, capping a centuries-long trend in late #medieval #Europe.

    The #shoes, stuffed to maintain their dramatic points, signaled wealth by making walking difficult, advertising freedom from manual labor. #Church leaders condemned the phallic silhouette as sinful vanity as post-Black Death social shifts spread the style widely.

    👉 zmescience.com/feature-post/hi

    #fashion #history #15thcentury #england #culture #style #footwear

  8. The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

    #prayer
    #faith
    #church
    #fellowship

    Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

  9. At its best, there's a noble purist vision that the Word, gospel, and ordinances should be the only things attractive. At its worst, the fear of flashy becomes glorying in being unattractive, developing pride around being tough, against-the-grain Christians. #Ecclesiology #churchleadership #Contextualization
    keelancook.com/counter-cultura

    #missiology #church #leadership #contextualization #theology

  10. At its best, there's a noble purist vision that the Word, gospel, and ordinances should be the only things attractive. At its worst, the fear of flashy becomes glorying in being unattractive, developing pride around being tough, against-the-grain Christians. #Ecclesiology #churchleadership #Contextualization
    keelancook.com/counter-cultura

    #missiology #church #leadership #contextualization #theology

  11. The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

    #church
    #fellowship

    Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

  12. Between the ages of 18 and 35? Come and join us, every second Friday from 18:30 to 20:30 for The Gathering, a space for young adults to worship, learn, grow, and have fun in a completely safe environment free from judgement. We'd love to see you there! #Church #Fellowship

  13. Product idea: An AI-Church so that you can send your AI-Believe-Agent to do the praying and believing for you on Sunday mornings, while you can sleep in.

    #ai #LLM #church

  14. The social web fuels sensationalism and outrage about the church's future. Do not buy into the defeatism. We have plenty of reason for hope. Instead, let's adopt a posture of both confidence and humility when considering the church's future, here or anywhere.
    keelancook.com/the-end-of-the-

    #missiology #church #leadership #theology #ministry

  15. Calling Out the Church Is an Act of Witness

    “Why are you calling the church out and making them look so bad?” someone asked me after I preached about the church’s lack of justice. “The people you’re preaching to probably don’t even need to hear that message. You were likely just preaching to the choir and calling out rare extremists.”

    I always feel a bit gaslighted when people tell me this. I wish I had screenshotted all of the insane posts I saw from Christians I knew during the pandemic. The “rare” extremists are apparently many of my friends. I grew up with them. I played at their houses. They taught me who Jesus was. And now that they had been socially and politically provoked, I was observing in them an unimaginable behavior I didn’t know they were capable of.

    To some extent, I need to speak out on these issues for evangelistic reasons, as the world needs to see a pastor address such behavior. Unbelievers think that the “rare” extremist is what Christianity looks like because they have seen the same posts I have. I also need to speak out to save myself. If I allow this kind of stuff to go on without saying anything, then I become complacent—and I can’t handle that. People need to know that Christians aren’t all like that. They need to know that Jesus looks different than what’s being presented to them.

    To represent God wrongly is what it means to take the Lord’s name in vain, and it was such a big deal to God that he made it one of the Ten Commandments. In the Old Testament, the Israelites bore the name of Yahweh just by being Israelites. Wherever they went and whatever they did, they were to be a specific representation of the name Yahweh. They were to have the character of Yahweh, do justice like Yahweh, farm like Yahweh, party like Yahweh, and take care of the oppressed like Yahweh. They failed over and over and over again until Yahweh eventually divorced his abusive wife, Israel. They had not done a good job of portraying Yahweh to the world, and they had taken his name in vain through their misrepresentation. Christians do the same thing.

    So why do I speak about justice to a world that doesn’t always want to hear about it?

    I speak because someone has to bear witness to it.

    #biblicalJustice #ChristianExtremism #ChristianWitness #Christianity #church #ChurchAccountability #evangelism #faithAndPolitics #injustice #Israel #Jesus #justice #misrepresentingJesus #OldTestament #pastoralMinistry #propheticWitness #religiousHypocrisy #silenceAndComplicity #socialJustice #standInTheBreach #takingTheLordSNameInVain #tenCommandments #TheChurch #Yahweh