#congregationalist — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #congregationalist, aggregated by home.social.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone