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  1. Hall—famous for the tract “Come to Jesus”—reads “give us this day our daily bread” as a communal petition. God gives more than we need precisely to exercise the grace of giving in us, and to open the opportunity of special reward. The “us” and “our” in the prayer are doing considerable work that individualist readings prefer to ignore. Hall thought this worth pointing out. It remains worth pointing out.
    #congregationalist #christian #lordsprayer #charity

  2. Hall—famous for the tract “Come to Jesus”—reads “give us this day our daily bread” as a communal petition. God gives more than we need precisely to exercise the grace of giving in us, and to open the opportunity of special reward. The “us” and “our” in the prayer are doing considerable work that individualist readings prefer to ignore. Hall thought this worth pointing out. It remains worth pointing out.
    #congregationalist #christian #lordsprayer #charity

  3. Hall—famous for the tract “Come to Jesus”—reads “give us this day our daily bread” as a communal petition. God gives more than we need precisely to exercise the grace of giving in us, and to open the opportunity of special reward. The “us” and “our” in the prayer are doing considerable work that individualist readings prefer to ignore. Hall thought this worth pointing out. It remains worth pointing out.
    #congregationalist #christian #lordsprayer #charity

  4. Hall—famous for the tract “Come to Jesus”—reads “give us this day our daily bread” as a communal petition. God gives more than we need precisely to exercise the grace of giving in us, and to open the opportunity of special reward. The “us” and “our” in the prayer are doing considerable work that individualist readings prefer to ignore. Hall thought this worth pointing out. It remains worth pointing out.
    #congregationalist #christian #lordsprayer #charity

  5. Raffles identifies a logical problem with paying for prayers for the dead. If prayers work by being prayers, free ones work equally well. If every mass already commemorates all the faithful including the poor, what are the fees purchasing? Raffles doesn’t demolish the theology. The economics do it for him.

    #congregationalist #worship #christian

  6. Raffles identifies a logical problem with paying for prayers for the dead. If prayers work by being prayers, free ones work equally well. If every mass already commemorates all the faithful including the poor, what are the fees purchasing? Raffles doesn’t demolish the theology. The economics do it for him.

    #congregationalist #worship #christian

  7. Raffles identifies a logical problem with paying for prayers for the dead. If prayers work by being prayers, free ones work equally well. If every mass already commemorates all the faithful including the poor, what are the fees purchasing? Raffles doesn’t demolish the theology. The economics do it for him.

    #congregationalist #worship #christian

  8. Raffles identifies a logical problem with paying for prayers for the dead. If prayers work by being prayers, free ones work equally well. If every mass already commemorates all the faithful including the poor, what are the fees purchasing? Raffles doesn’t demolish the theology. The economics do it for him.

    #congregationalist #worship #christian

  9. Collyer: the Gospel should have no enemies—it breathes peace, promotes human joy, sweetens every connection, strengthens philanthropy. Jesus made friends with outcasts and offended religious people. Today the pattern reverses: gospel-wearers create division at conservative churches over new litmus tests, while arguing against every humanitarian urgency. Collyer would have found this puzzling.

    #gospel #congregationalist #christian

  10. Collyer: the Gospel should have no enemies—it breathes peace, promotes human joy, sweetens every connection, strengthens philanthropy. Jesus made friends with outcasts and offended religious people. Today the pattern reverses: gospel-wearers create division at conservative churches over new litmus tests, while arguing against every humanitarian urgency. Collyer would have found this puzzling.

    #gospel #congregationalist #christian

  11. Collyer: the Gospel should have no enemies—it breathes peace, promotes human joy, sweetens every connection, strengthens philanthropy. Jesus made friends with outcasts and offended religious people. Today the pattern reverses: gospel-wearers create division at conservative churches over new litmus tests, while arguing against every humanitarian urgency. Collyer would have found this puzzling.

    #gospel #congregationalist #christian

  12. Collyer: the Gospel should have no enemies—it breathes peace, promotes human joy, sweetens every connection, strengthens philanthropy. Jesus made friends with outcasts and offended religious people. Today the pattern reverses: gospel-wearers create division at conservative churches over new litmus tests, while arguing against every humanitarian urgency. Collyer would have found this puzzling.

    #gospel #congregationalist #christian

  13. Bartlett—Congregationalist, eventual Dartmouth president—catalogs unsanctified commerce: the East India Company promoting idolatry, the slave trade, debauchery of Indigenous Americans, the opium war, Pacific vice. Against this, missionaries fought fifty years. Commerce was the pollutant; missionaries were the resistance. Today that framing is inverted: these missionaries libeled as mere colonizers, and the commerce becomes the idol.

    #christian #mission #fairtrade #gospel #congregationalist

  14. Bartlett—Congregationalist, eventual Dartmouth president—catalogs unsanctified commerce: the East India Company promoting idolatry, the slave trade, debauchery of Indigenous Americans, the opium war, Pacific vice. Against this, missionaries fought fifty years. Commerce was the pollutant; missionaries were the resistance. Today that framing is inverted: these missionaries libeled as mere colonizers, and the commerce becomes the idol.

    #christian #mission #fairtrade #gospel #congregationalist

  15. Bartlett—Congregationalist, eventual Dartmouth president—catalogs unsanctified commerce: the East India Company promoting idolatry, the slave trade, debauchery of Indigenous Americans, the opium war, Pacific vice. Against this, missionaries fought fifty years. Commerce was the pollutant; missionaries were the resistance. Today that framing is inverted: these missionaries libeled as mere colonizers, and the commerce becomes the idol.

    #christian #mission #fairtrade #gospel #congregationalist

  16. Bartlett—Congregationalist, eventual Dartmouth president—catalogs unsanctified commerce: the East India Company promoting idolatry, the slave trade, debauchery of Indigenous Americans, the opium war, Pacific vice. Against this, missionaries fought fifty years. Commerce was the pollutant; missionaries were the resistance. Today that framing is inverted: these missionaries libeled as mere colonizers, and the commerce becomes the idol.

    #christian #mission #fairtrade #gospel #congregationalist

  17. Hopkins asks what enslaved people must conclude about Christianity, watching its adherents perpetrate slavery. Liberals say slavery is biblical to indict the religion. Conservatives say slavery is biblical to defend it. Both arrive at the same proposition, disagreeing only on direction. Hopkins found a third option: the system was the problem, not the doctrine.

    #christian #congregationalist #anitslavery #apologetics

  18. Hopkins asks what enslaved people must conclude about Christianity, watching its adherents perpetrate slavery. Liberals say slavery is biblical to indict the religion. Conservatives say slavery is biblical to defend it. Both arrive at the same proposition, disagreeing only on direction. Hopkins found a third option: the system was the problem, not the doctrine.

    #christian #congregationalist #anitslavery #apologetics

  19. Hopkins asks what enslaved people must conclude about Christianity, watching its adherents perpetrate slavery. Liberals say slavery is biblical to indict the religion. Conservatives say slavery is biblical to defend it. Both arrive at the same proposition, disagreeing only on direction. Hopkins found a third option: the system was the problem, not the doctrine.

    #christian #congregationalist #anitslavery #apologetics

  20. Hopkins asks what enslaved people must conclude about Christianity, watching its adherents perpetrate slavery. Liberals say slavery is biblical to indict the religion. Conservatives say slavery is biblical to defend it. Both arrive at the same proposition, disagreeing only on direction. Hopkins found a third option: the system was the problem, not the doctrine.

    #christian #congregationalist #anitslavery #apologetics

  21. Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary to Syria. Here he critiques the slogan, “Charity begins at home.” He says it’s not in the bible, it’s not the charity of the bible. . It had origin in some other quarter.

    How can you practice the charity of the bible?

    #congregationalist #charitybeginsathome #greed #missionaries

  22. Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary to Syria. Here he critiques the slogan, “Charity begins at home.” He says it’s not in the bible, it’s not the charity of the bible. . It had origin in some other quarter.

    How can you practice the charity of the bible?

    #congregationalist #charitybeginsathome #greed #missionaries

  23. Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary to Syria. Here he critiques the slogan, “Charity begins at home.” He says it’s not in the bible, it’s not the charity of the bible. . It had origin in some other quarter.

    How can you practice the charity of the bible?

    #congregationalist #charitybeginsathome #greed #missionaries

  24. Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary to Syria. Here he critiques the slogan, “Charity begins at home.” He says it’s not in the bible, it’s not the charity of the bible. . It had origin in some other quarter.

    How can you practice the charity of the bible?

    #congregationalist #charitybeginsathome #greed #missionaries

  25. Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary to Syria. Here he critiques the slogan, “Charity begins at home.” He says it’s not in the bible, it’s not the charity of the bible. . It had origin in some other quarter.

    How can you practice the charity of the bible?

    #congregationalist #charitybeginsathome #greed #missionaries

  26. Parsons Cooke, #Congregationalist minister of Lynn, MA taught that in the poor who ask our help we meet Christ Himself. As Christ became poor for our sake, their need echoes His humiliation. The world’s many cries are not noise to escape, but calls meant to awaken mercy and shape us into Christlike compassion.

    #christian #passion

  27. Parsons Cooke, #Congregationalist minister of Lynn, MA taught that in the poor who ask our help we meet Christ Himself. As Christ became poor for our sake, their need echoes His humiliation. The world’s many cries are not noise to escape, but calls meant to awaken mercy and shape us into Christlike compassion.

    #christian #passion

  28. Parsons Cooke, #Congregationalist minister of Lynn, MA taught that in the poor who ask our help we meet Christ Himself. As Christ became poor for our sake, their need echoes His humiliation. The world’s many cries are not noise to escape, but calls meant to awaken mercy and shape us into Christlike compassion.

    #christian #passion

  29. Parsons Cooke, #Congregationalist minister of Lynn, MA taught that in the poor who ask our help we meet Christ Himself. As Christ became poor for our sake, their need echoes His humiliation. The world’s many cries are not noise to escape, but calls meant to awaken mercy and shape us into Christlike compassion.

    #christian #passion

  30. Parsons Cooke, #Congregationalist minister of Lynn, MA taught that in the poor who ask our help we meet Christ Himself. As Christ became poor for our sake, their need echoes His humiliation. The world’s many cries are not noise to escape, but calls meant to awaken mercy and shape us into Christlike compassion.

    #christian #passion

  31. James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?

    #antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology

  32. James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?

    #antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology

  33. James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?

    #antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology

  34. James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?

    #antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology

  35. James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?

    #antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology

  36. Beriah Green, a Congregationalist abolitionist, makes the awkward point that people who trample others’ rights tend to find the Bible terribly inconvenient. His cure is annoyingly simple: try obeying it. Do a little good, and suddenly Jesus stops sounding unreasonable. Modern conservative religion prefers a lengthy tap-dance around slavery, rights, and “context.” Green says: obey first, objections later. How might obedience loosen yours?

    #christian #bible #faithfulness #congregationalist

  37. Beriah Green, a Congregationalist abolitionist, makes the awkward point that people who trample others’ rights tend to find the Bible terribly inconvenient. His cure is annoyingly simple: try obeying it. Do a little good, and suddenly Jesus stops sounding unreasonable. Modern conservative religion prefers a lengthy tap-dance around slavery, rights, and “context.” Green says: obey first, objections later. How might obedience loosen yours?

    #christian #bible #faithfulness #congregationalist

  38. Beriah Green, a Congregationalist abolitionist, makes the awkward point that people who trample others’ rights tend to find the Bible terribly inconvenient. His cure is annoyingly simple: try obeying it. Do a little good, and suddenly Jesus stops sounding unreasonable. Modern conservative religion prefers a lengthy tap-dance around slavery, rights, and “context.” Green says: obey first, objections later. How might obedience loosen yours?

    #christian #bible #faithfulness #congregationalist

  39. Beriah Green, a Congregationalist abolitionist, makes the awkward point that people who trample others’ rights tend to find the Bible terribly inconvenient. His cure is annoyingly simple: try obeying it. Do a little good, and suddenly Jesus stops sounding unreasonable. Modern conservative religion prefers a lengthy tap-dance around slavery, rights, and “context.” Green says: obey first, objections later. How might obedience loosen yours?

    #christian #bible #faithfulness #congregationalist

  40. Beriah Green, a Congregationalist abolitionist, makes the awkward point that people who trample others’ rights tend to find the Bible terribly inconvenient. His cure is annoyingly simple: try obeying it. Do a little good, and suddenly Jesus stops sounding unreasonable. Modern conservative religion prefers a lengthy tap-dance around slavery, rights, and “context.” Green says: obey first, objections later. How might obedience loosen yours?

    #christian #bible #faithfulness #congregationalist

  41. Jedidiah Morse, #Congregationalist pastor, tells a Humane Society that mercy means hard work: pray, teach the ignorant, reclaim the vicious, steady the shaken, aim at souls. The sting, of course, is that the “vicious” may not be your enemies at all, but your allies, your party, your tribe—perhaps even you.

    #christian #CheckYourAttitude #evangelism

  42. Jedidiah Morse, #Congregationalist pastor, tells a Humane Society that mercy means hard work: pray, teach the ignorant, reclaim the vicious, steady the shaken, aim at souls. The sting, of course, is that the “vicious” may not be your enemies at all, but your allies, your party, your tribe—perhaps even you.

    #christian #CheckYourAttitude #evangelism

  43. Jedidiah Morse, #Congregationalist pastor, tells a Humane Society that mercy means hard work: pray, teach the ignorant, reclaim the vicious, steady the shaken, aim at souls. The sting, of course, is that the “vicious” may not be your enemies at all, but your allies, your party, your tribe—perhaps even you.

    #christian #CheckYourAttitude #evangelism

  44. Jedidiah Morse, #Congregationalist pastor, tells a Humane Society that mercy means hard work: pray, teach the ignorant, reclaim the vicious, steady the shaken, aim at souls. The sting, of course, is that the “vicious” may not be your enemies at all, but your allies, your party, your tribe—perhaps even you.

    #christian #CheckYourAttitude #evangelism

  45. Jedidiah Morse, #Congregationalist pastor, tells a Humane Society that mercy means hard work: pray, teach the ignorant, reclaim the vicious, steady the shaken, aim at souls. The sting, of course, is that the “vicious” may not be your enemies at all, but your allies, your party, your tribe—perhaps even you.

    #christian #CheckYourAttitude #evangelism

  46. William Jay, a #Congregationalist minister in England, cuts straight to the point: piety without benevolence is hypocrisy. Some chase the glow of spiritual devotion by trimming away the inconvenience of time spent loving others. But faith that avoids mercy isn’t refined—it’s hollow. How will you hold devotion and active love together?

    #lightoftabor #christianbooks #genzrevival #historylesson #intolerant #faultlines #jesusistheway #christian

  47. William Jay, a #Congregationalist minister in England, cuts straight to the point: piety without benevolence is hypocrisy. Some chase the glow of spiritual devotion by trimming away the inconvenience of time spent loving others. But faith that avoids mercy isn’t refined—it’s hollow. How will you hold devotion and active love together?

    #lightoftabor #christianbooks #genzrevival #historylesson #intolerant #faultlines #jesusistheway #christian

  48. William Jay, a #Congregationalist minister in England, cuts straight to the point: piety without benevolence is hypocrisy. Some chase the glow of spiritual devotion by trimming away the inconvenience of time spent loving others. But faith that avoids mercy isn’t refined—it’s hollow. How will you hold devotion and active love together?

    #lightoftabor #christianbooks #genzrevival #historylesson #intolerant #faultlines #jesusistheway #christian

  49. William Jay, a #Congregationalist minister in England, cuts straight to the point: piety without benevolence is hypocrisy. Some chase the glow of spiritual devotion by trimming away the inconvenience of time spent loving others. But faith that avoids mercy isn’t refined—it’s hollow. How will you hold devotion and active love together?

    #lightoftabor #christianbooks #genzrevival #historylesson #intolerant #faultlines #jesusistheway #christian

  50. William Jay, a #Congregationalist minister in England, cuts straight to the point: piety without benevolence is hypocrisy. Some chase the glow of spiritual devotion by trimming away the inconvenience of time spent loving others. But faith that avoids mercy isn’t refined—it’s hollow. How will you hold devotion and active love together?

    #lightoftabor #christianbooks #genzrevival #historylesson #intolerant #faultlines #jesusistheway #christian

  51. James Levi Barton, #Congregationalist missionary leader, says during the Armenian genocide, missionaries suffered alongside, and distributed relief.

    Do free-love libruls have a history of doing this? Do gospel-primacy Christians get mad at distractions about genocides?

    How can you call for comfort and assistance?
    #christian

  52. James Levi Barton, #Congregationalist missionary leader, says during the Armenian genocide, missionaries suffered alongside, and distributed relief.

    Do free-love libruls have a history of doing this? Do gospel-primacy Christians get mad at distractions about genocides?

    How can you call for comfort and assistance?
    #christian

  53. James Levi Barton, #Congregationalist missionary leader, says during the Armenian genocide, missionaries suffered alongside, and distributed relief.

    Do free-love libruls have a history of doing this? Do gospel-primacy Christians get mad at distractions about genocides?

    How can you call for comfort and assistance?
    #christian

  54. James Levi Barton, #Congregationalist missionary leader, says during the Armenian genocide, missionaries suffered alongside, and distributed relief.

    Do free-love libruls have a history of doing this? Do gospel-primacy Christians get mad at distractions about genocides?

    How can you call for comfort and assistance?
    #christian

  55. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ David Livingstone ✧

    David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explor...

    #LondonMissionarySociety #Africa #Livingstone #Congregationalist #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Li

  56. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ David Livingstone ✧

    David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explor...

    #LondonMissionarySociety #Africa #Livingstone #Congregationalist #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Li

  57. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ David Livingstone ✧

    David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explor...

    #LondonMissionarySociety #Africa #Livingstone #Congregationalist #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Li

  58. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ David Livingstone ✧

    David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explor...

    #LondonMissionarySociety #Africa #Livingstone #Congregationalist #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Li

  59. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ David Livingstone ✧

    David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explor...

    #LondonMissionarySociety #Africa #Livingstone #Congregationalist #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Li