#presbyterian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #presbyterian, aggregated by home.social.
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James Balmford, 16th-century Presbyterian minister, on plague survivors who spread the rumour it isn't contagious: this poisons others and insults God's providence by denying the miracle occurred. Recently saw Christians arguing ADHD meds are unnecessary, one claiming he beat it via sheer discipline. Same spirit: your survival becomes universal proof, others' suffering a discipline failure.
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James Balmford, 16th-century Presbyterian minister, on plague survivors who spread the rumour it isn't contagious: this poisons others and insults God's providence by denying the miracle occurred. Recently saw Christians arguing ADHD meds are unnecessary, one claiming he beat it via sheer discipline. Same spirit: your survival becomes universal proof, others' suffering a discipline failure.
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James Balmford, 16th-century Presbyterian minister, on plague survivors who spread the rumour it isn't contagious: this poisons others and insults God's providence by denying the miracle occurred. Recently saw Christians arguing ADHD meds are unnecessary, one claiming he beat it via sheer discipline. Same spirit: your survival becomes universal proof, others' suffering a discipline failure.
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James Balmford, 16th-century Presbyterian minister, on plague survivors who spread the rumour it isn't contagious: this poisons others and insults God's providence by denying the miracle occurred. Recently saw Christians arguing ADHD meds are unnecessary, one claiming he beat it via sheer discipline. Same spirit: your survival becomes universal proof, others' suffering a discipline failure.
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James Balmford, 16th-century Presbyterian minister, on plague survivors who spread the rumour it isn't contagious: this poisons others and insults God's providence by denying the miracle occurred. Recently saw Christians arguing ADHD meds are unnecessary, one claiming he beat it via sheer discipline. Same spirit: your survival becomes universal proof, others' suffering a discipline failure.
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DeWitt, Presbyterian minister at Princeton, observed that charity and Gospel witness aren’t separate pursuits—they’re the same thing. Modern Christianity, displaying remarkable ingenuity, has split them into warring camps. Quite the theological achievement.
But how can you help the whole person?
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Ellinwood extols medical missionaries who brought vaccines, drainage, sanitation, and anesthetics to the developing world—heritage of all nations. Was this distraction from the gospel or its fruit? Certain Christians today pursue a rather different conquest, whose benefits appear less universally distributed.
#presbyterian #missions #missionaries #evangelism #development
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Robinson—English Presbyterian minister—observes that wealth confers a particular capacity poverty does not: to relieve prisoners, feed the hungry, ransom captives. He frames this as mercy from God, an opportunity rather than mere possession. One notes that considerable contemporary wealth appears directed at the opposite project: persuading the rest of us to feel less compassion for those being imprisoned or starved. Same resource. Rather different application.
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Hamilton—Scottish Presbyterian—unpacks “blessed are the merciful” with some precision. Blessed are those with eyes open to discern misery and ears to hear its cry. And blessed are those for whom love of Christ and concern for souls together actually produce endeavour. Not sentiment. Not awareness alone. Endeavour. What misery have you discerned this week, and what, specifically, have you done about it?
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Hildersham—Puritan, expounding Psalm 51—identifies reluctance to give to the poor as a faith problem. If you genuinely believed God’s promises, giving would present no difficulty. Preachers regularly deploy “if you truly believed, you would” for tithing and attendance. Curiously rarely for the poor. Hildersham would have found that selective.
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Sibbes—Puritan, encouraging the backslider—offers a self-check for election. Colossians 3:12: put on bowels of mercy toward the fatherless and needy. That’s how you demonstrate you’re one of the elect. Modern conservative Christianity has developed different assurance criteria. Mercy toward the needy as evidence of election has been quietly retired. Sibbes didn’t get that memo.
#puritan #grace #presbyterian #empathy #compassion #salvation
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George Hutcheson, a Scottish #Presbyterian expositor, notes that Job is accused (v.22:6-7) not of cruelty but of neglect: no water for the weary, no bread for the hungry. Scripture treats withheld mercy as real guilt. We answer not only for harm done, but for good refused.
What omissions would still accuse us? Where can you give water today?
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Allison Tanner of the American Friends Service Committee appears at Trinity #Presbyterian Church in #Denton to address America's particular responsibility to address Israeli #apartheid given the ways our taxes provide direct support to Israel. Our faith has been co-opted to support Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Saturday, Oct 11, 1:30pm, 2200 N Bell Ave.
#Gaza #Palestine #AFSC #PCUSA #Friends #Quakers https://afsc.org/apartheid-free-communities -
So apparently #AfterMethod is currently the "no. 1 new release in #Presbyterian christianity" (according to amazon) which gives me great delight https://www.amazon.com/After-Method-Conceptual-Possibility-Theology/dp/0664268196
#theology #systematictheology #queertheology #constructivetheology #bettertheology