#theologymatters — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #theologymatters, aggregated by home.social.
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William Cunningham, co-founder of the Free Church of Scotland, pointed out that while society may imprison or even execute criminals, that hardly justifies slavery. Equating punishment with lifelong bondage is not argument but tidying up a moral mess. The awkward question, then: when we see injustice today, do we merely explain it—or actually help someone escape it?
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Thomas Watson, that wonderfully blunt Puritan, basically says: lovely speeches about compassion are useless if the poor are still hungry. You can drizzle honeyed words everywhere—but the wounded need bread, not poetry. Better to be a saint with a loaf than an angel with a microphone.
#puritan #christian #theologymatters #reformed #puritanscholastics
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Thomas Watson, that wonderfully blunt Puritan, basically says: lovely speeches about compassion are useless if the poor are still hungry. You can drizzle honeyed words everywhere—but the wounded need bread, not poetry. Better to be a saint with a loaf than an angel with a microphone.
#puritan #christian #theologymatters #reformed #puritanscholastics
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Thomas Watson, that wonderfully blunt Puritan, basically says: lovely speeches about compassion are useless if the poor are still hungry. You can drizzle honeyed words everywhere—but the wounded need bread, not poetry. Better to be a saint with a loaf than an angel with a microphone.
#puritan #christian #theologymatters #reformed #puritanscholastics
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Thomas Watson, that wonderfully blunt Puritan, basically says: lovely speeches about compassion are useless if the poor are still hungry. You can drizzle honeyed words everywhere—but the wounded need bread, not poetry. Better to be a saint with a loaf than an angel with a microphone.
#puritan #christian #theologymatters #reformed #puritanscholastics
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Thomas Watson, that wonderfully blunt Puritan, basically says: lovely speeches about compassion are useless if the poor are still hungry. You can drizzle honeyed words everywhere—but the wounded need bread, not poetry. Better to be a saint with a loaf than an angel with a microphone.
#puritan #christian #theologymatters #reformed #puritanscholastics
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Henry Venn—Anglican minister and Church Missionary Society man—murmured that grace is no idle ornament. Reconciled heirs of God feel a gentle, pressing constraint: Christ’s love nudges them toward brotherly kindness and charity. Yet we bristle, redefine, retreat. Oh, but grace still asks: will love reach even those you disdain?
#anglican #reformedtheology #rooted #theologymatters #salvation #duty
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Henry Venn—Anglican minister and Church Missionary Society man—murmured that grace is no idle ornament. Reconciled heirs of God feel a gentle, pressing constraint: Christ’s love nudges them toward brotherly kindness and charity. Yet we bristle, redefine, retreat. Oh, but grace still asks: will love reach even those you disdain?
#anglican #reformedtheology #rooted #theologymatters #salvation #duty
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Henry Venn—Anglican minister and Church Missionary Society man—murmured that grace is no idle ornament. Reconciled heirs of God feel a gentle, pressing constraint: Christ’s love nudges them toward brotherly kindness and charity. Yet we bristle, redefine, retreat. Oh, but grace still asks: will love reach even those you disdain?
#anglican #reformedtheology #rooted #theologymatters #salvation #duty
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Henry Venn—Anglican minister and Church Missionary Society man—murmured that grace is no idle ornament. Reconciled heirs of God feel a gentle, pressing constraint: Christ’s love nudges them toward brotherly kindness and charity. Yet we bristle, redefine, retreat. Oh, but grace still asks: will love reach even those you disdain?
#anglican #reformedtheology #rooted #theologymatters #salvation #duty
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Henry Venn—Anglican minister and Church Missionary Society man—murmured that grace is no idle ornament. Reconciled heirs of God feel a gentle, pressing constraint: Christ’s love nudges them toward brotherly kindness and charity. Yet we bristle, redefine, retreat. Oh, but grace still asks: will love reach even those you disdain?
#anglican #reformedtheology #rooted #theologymatters #salvation #duty
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Charles John Ellicott, Anglican bishop, notes Paul doesn’t smash slavery with a hammer; he slips yeast into the dough. Christianity seeps in, alters the taste, and—awkwardly for slavery—turns chains into contradictions. Christianized bondage becomes liberty. So which institutions are you quietly leavening?
#heaven #christian #theologymatters #antislavery #leaven #anglican
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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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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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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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Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary who described religious devotion carried out amid widespread hunger and suffering, where zeal for ritual coexisted with indifference to human misery. Chrysostom would ask: what is piety if bodies perish beside our prayers? Where might we honor religion while neglecting mercy?
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Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary who described religious devotion carried out amid widespread hunger and suffering, where zeal for ritual coexisted with indifference to human misery. Chrysostom would ask: what is piety if bodies perish beside our prayers? Where might we honor religion while neglecting mercy?
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Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary who described religious devotion carried out amid widespread hunger and suffering, where zeal for ritual coexisted with indifference to human misery. Chrysostom would ask: what is piety if bodies perish beside our prayers? Where might we honor religion while neglecting mercy?
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Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary who described religious devotion carried out amid widespread hunger and suffering, where zeal for ritual coexisted with indifference to human misery. Chrysostom would ask: what is piety if bodies perish beside our prayers? Where might we honor religion while neglecting mercy?
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Isaac Bird was a Congregationalist missionary who described religious devotion carried out amid widespread hunger and suffering, where zeal for ritual coexisted with indifference to human misery. Chrysostom would ask: what is piety if bodies perish beside our prayers? Where might we honor religion while neglecting mercy?
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Jean Taffin, a Reformed peacemaker among quarrelling Protestants, suggested the safest investment strategy is alarmingly simple: give generously. Wealth vanishes anyway; charity deposits it with Christ. Odd how modern prudence often means guarding every coin from the poor. What might you entrust to Jesus instead?
#reformed #reformedtheology #theologymatters #faith #lazarus
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Scottish missionary James William Massie describes starvation and disease in India—and notes the suffering gathered at the doors of European residents. He doesn’t blame local religion; he implies responsibility rests with those who had power. Though sent to preach the gospel, he insists attending bodily misery belongs to Christian witness itself. Both sneering at missionaries and ignoring suffering miss the point. How will you let misery disturb you into action?
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Dutch Reformed missionary Andrew Murray notes that in Luke 16 Lazarus is praised for no special virtue, and the rich man is condemned for no scandalous crime—only for ignoring Lazarus’s suffering. The sin is comfortable neglect. Faith that guards doctrine yet trains us not to notice pain misses the warning. How are we learning to see—and respond to—the poor at our gate?
#BiblicalWorldview #ChurchLeaders #Christianity #FaithAndCulture #TheologyMatters #ChurchHistory #Mercy #reformeddoctrine
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Dutch Reformed missionary Andrew Murray notes that in Luke 16 Lazarus is praised for no special virtue, and the rich man is condemned for no scandalous crime—only for ignoring Lazarus’s suffering. The sin is comfortable neglect. Faith that guards doctrine yet trains us not to notice pain misses the warning. How are we learning to see—and respond to—the poor at our gate?
#BiblicalWorldview #ChurchLeaders #Christianity #FaithAndCulture #TheologyMatters #ChurchHistory #Mercy #reformeddoctrine
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Dutch Reformed missionary Andrew Murray notes that in Luke 16 Lazarus is praised for no special virtue, and the rich man is condemned for no scandalous crime—only for ignoring Lazarus’s suffering. The sin is comfortable neglect. Faith that guards doctrine yet trains us not to notice pain misses the warning. How are we learning to see—and respond to—the poor at our gate?
#BiblicalWorldview #ChurchLeaders #Christianity #FaithAndCulture #TheologyMatters #ChurchHistory #Mercy #reformeddoctrine
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Dutch Reformed missionary Andrew Murray notes that in Luke 16 Lazarus is praised for no special virtue, and the rich man is condemned for no scandalous crime—only for ignoring Lazarus’s suffering. The sin is comfortable neglect. Faith that guards doctrine yet trains us not to notice pain misses the warning. How are we learning to see—and respond to—the poor at our gate?
#BiblicalWorldview #ChurchLeaders #Christianity #FaithAndCulture #TheologyMatters #ChurchHistory #Mercy #reformeddoctrine
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Dutch Reformed missionary Andrew Murray notes that in Luke 16 Lazarus is praised for no special virtue, and the rich man is condemned for no scandalous crime—only for ignoring Lazarus’s suffering. The sin is comfortable neglect. Faith that guards doctrine yet trains us not to notice pain misses the warning. How are we learning to see—and respond to—the poor at our gate?
#BiblicalWorldview #ChurchLeaders #Christianity #FaithAndCulture #TheologyMatters #ChurchHistory #Mercy #reformeddoctrine
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Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné was a Swiss minister and leader in an evangelical reform movement. He cites Acts 10:38: Jesus went about doing good. If there were more charity in our hearts, there would be more souls saved.
Today, would we be more likely to see the work of the devil be associated with charity? FRC was praising the defeat of “woke foreign aid” in the new budget, w/o backup.
How can you confess the name of Christ?
#christian #foundersministries #quote #theologymatters #hopeingod -
Hearing so many of my friends in Texas suffering from the floods (several who had to evacuate, one who is having to try to save their house DIY without flood insurance) has been hard.
It's hard because of the human tragedy. Ordinary people losing so much, being even more vulnerable in a very time in history.
But it's doubly hard because the tragedy is leading people to embrace terrible, toxic forms of theology (i.e. the Texas governor actually claiming that the flood waters receeded because of prayer --- so I guess God doesn't care enough about the 90+ people who have died so far to intercede sooner). And of course we can count on these same politicians (who gutted FEMA and the Weather service) to now preach at us some more, pushing people to "have faith" and "pray harder."
Sorry, but that is not how the world works. God isn't going to save the people of Texas (and other places) from flood waters. And God isn't going to help those who have lost loved ones and homes.
Who can help? . . . PEOPLE, actual human beings can help.
Certainly, religion can be a motivator for doing good and for meeting human needs, but we need to be clear that it is toxic when it becomes a justification for governments and other human institutions and individuals to not take the action that needs to take place.
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James Hastings, Scottish United Free Church minister, says that the position of women is particularly degraded in places where the teaching of Christ is unknown. Christ lifted women from being mere toy or slave of men.
Some may say women to not fare well under Christian fundamentalist movements. I say, if that’s true, it still is in no way counterevidence to Hasting’s premise!
How can you work against the degradation of women?
#christian #sharekindness #theologymatters #solafide #republicans
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Thomas Cranmer was an Anglican reformer, burned at the stake under Mary I. Here he writes on the Lord’s Prayer, specifically, “Give us this day our daily bread,” and the implications of “OUR”. He laments it was very clear that the rich and greedy spent more money on parties that’s sharing with the poor.
Was this mere class warfare, or a preacher calling people to repent?
How can you consider the poor in your daily bread?#christian #food #fivepointcalvinist #theologymatters #examinedlife