Notices by Crux_Invictus (crux_invictus@poa.st)
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@WashedOutGundamPilot The culture shifted and so did the church. You excommunicate them, God forbid, but pastors should be guiding them towards marriage.
As with all manner of sins, you can be pastoral when dealing with sinners while also condemning sin. After all the Word of God convicts sinners and offers them forgiveness if they repent of it.
But we ignore it or even worse we throw it in people's faces when they try to call out sins like homosexuality. "How dare you call this guy a sodomite! Remove the log that is premarital sex from your own eye first!"
It's difficult because we can't be so legalistic that we return into Pharisees and purity spiral ourselves into extinction. But we also can't be so soft that we fail to call sin what it is
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@WashedOutGundamPilot For the most part yes, the natural "missional" energy churches have is often sent overseas. Be it through people going on trips or money, it's also a very sanitary way of evangelizing since you just give money and it's sometime else's problem.
But that's not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is that a lot of Christians are ashamed of the Bible, and Lutherans in particular seem to be ashamed of what makes them Lutheran. So when they evangelize they do so in a way that tickles the ears. Instead of calling out immorality and telling people to stop before they run right off a cliff they just "love" them in a vague often sin-affirming way.
It's been an issue for decades now but for some church bodies like mine it's now reaching a boiling point.
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I'm forever being told that churches need to be "missional", and that we need to foster a "mission culture".
It's good for churches to be missional in the sense that they should be active in their communities. But churches should also be preaching the whole Word of God including those parts that will offend people. What's the point of a church that won't speak against evil?
Instead of missional how about we be confessional instead?
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Sure, when properly understood a missional church is confessional and vice versa. But more often than not I see churches, who want to be missional, give up their Lutheran identity and theology in an attempt to appeal to the public. It doesn't work.
If you aren't brave enough to confess Christ in the face of the world what makes you think new converts will?
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@martianvenator >"So, do you still want to be a YouTuber son?"
>"No dad"
>"Good"
>"I'm going to be a Podcaster instead"
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@weaf @MoralPanic That's a kill shot.
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>What goes through @SuperLutheran 's mind when the Harry Potter movies start playing
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Imagine thinking they things happen sometimes. Couldn't be me chat, anything ever happens.
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@rher Everyone who thinks they're unlovable is pretending, because Jesus loves them.
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@gnarley_boot @Terry @SuperSnekFriend >Be linux user
>Want to install software to use
>Break sound driver
>Be Windows user
>Want to install software to use
>Click wrong download link
>Blue monkey appears on screen
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@SuperSnekFriend @gnarley_boot @Terry >Fix linux problem
Try and fix it yourself
Fail
Go to Reddit
Be laughed at
Fail again.
>Fix Windows Problem
Turn PC off
Turn PC on
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Sometimes Jeff makes me seethe and there are times he makes me laugh.
This made me laugh.
There is no escape from #darkjeff
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@qwerty I saw a stole (it's the scarf looking thing priests wear as a part of their vestments) with that new homo flag variation on it. I know it's not new, just can't think of a better way to say "no, not the normal rainbow homo flag".
I was vomit.
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@Fash-E @MK2boogaloo @givenup @jimmybuffettfanaccount >France
>Dominant
Talk about hypothetical situations bordering on the impossible.
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@MK2boogaloo @Fash-E @givenup @jimmybuffettfanaccount Not being an Anglo yourself you wouldn't understand. It's the kind of natural confidence, natural arrogance, that Anglos possess which make us the only possible choice.
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@MK2boogaloo @Fash-E @givenup @jimmybuffettfanaccount Yet you speak English in order to communicate with strangers on the internet who only speak English. Curious.
How courteous (like a proper English Gentleman).
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@MK2boogaloo @Fash-E @givenup @jimmybuffettfanaccount How terrible, if that had happened you'd be speaking English! Oh.... Oh no!
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@jimmybuffettfanaccount @Fash-E I mean, it won't be a French emperor (it'll be an Anglo, one of the true rulers of the French).
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Pack it up lads, turns out the Gospel is a trick because *checks notes* a model chariot.
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