Conscientious Objecting- Choosing Your Twitter War Wisely

Posted on August 15, 2023 by RC

Either/or either works, or it doesn’t. Sometimes we really do have to pick our poison. Other times we find ourselves being roped into a false dilemma, and escape through a tertium quid, a third option. Joshua asked the Captain of the Lord’s hosts if He was for the children of Israel or for the children of Jericho. He wisely answered, “No.”

Viet Nam is no argument for pacifism. Chamberlain is no argument for waging aggressive war. We can be against this war, but not against all wars. We can be for that other war, but not for all wars. And so it is with Twitter Wars.

It is not my contention that we all have a duty, if we can’t say something nice, to say nothing at all. It is my contention, however, that not every time some member of the Axis rattles his cyber saber that it is the duty of every member of the Allies to rattle back and amass toy soldiers on the border. In fact, it may be that the best course of action is for all of us to keep our swords in their scabbards.

My gratitude for the courage, Biblical insight and humility of Martin Luther knows no bounds. As we remember his nailing his 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg, we would do well to remember that he wasn’t starting a revolution. He simply sought to start a conversation. The fruit of those conversations eventually led to that watershed moment when all the power of Rome was aligned against him, demanding at the Imperial Diet of Worms, they dressed in their gaudy array, and he in his monk’s cowl, that he recant. And he boldly responded, “May I have 24 hours to think about it?”

It was only after a long night of intense prayer that he gave his “Here I stand- I can do no other” speech. We, on the other hand, can’t be bothered to take time to even proof-read before hurling our rhetorical grenades in the latest twitter war. And the issues we fight over are mole hills compared to Luther’s mountain. Maybe he was cautious, slow to speak where we are not because he was facing the very real possibility of being put to death, whereas the worst that can happen to us is we might lose a few followers.

That, however, is just the problem. Because it is “safe” to be over the top in our assaults against others over the interwebs we forget our calling- that we not be contentious, that our speech be marked by grace, that a soft answer turns away wrath, that we will be known to be His by our love one for another. We forget love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. We forget that the very ones we are fighting against over secondary issues are those Jesus fights for, the ones He died for. We forget that He came and was crucified for His bride, the Second Eve, not for her ugly caricature, Big Eva.

Lord, teach my hands to make peace and teach me to pray, “Here I kneel; I can do no other.”

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Where do theological liberals get grace wrong?

Posted on August 14, 2023 by RC

Let me count the ways. I recently came across a tweet (forgive an old man for being slow to change) wherein a gentlemen left of center theologically opined that what people need from the church is not guilt, but grace. In a sense I can agree with a sentiment that could fit inside those words. The message the church has for its members is less “You are a horrible and awful person and God hates you” and more “God loves all those who come to Him in repentance and faith.” Wondering if the tweet meant what I hoped it meant I asked, “Grace for what, if not our guilt?”

Grace, according to the theological liberal, is that which erases the law, making us not guilty. To the biblical believer, on the other hand, grace is that which covers our genuine guilt. The gospel isn’t the good news that God did away with His law. Rather it is the good news that the law’s just judgment for our failure to obey the law has already been paid by Christ on the cross. With the former one is right with God with no repentance, no acknowledgment of His law, nor any need to change at all. With the latter one is right with God despite our obvious failure, only through repenting of our sin, acknowledging His authority and striving to obey. Which one seems more appealing to sinners like us?

When a man acknowledges a god that has no law, no wrath, no justice, no authority, no judgment, the man is not only still stuck in his sins but has added the sin of idolatry. It matters not if the man calls this god Jesus or Adonai. It matters not if this man is a woman, ordained by the United Episcopal Presbyterian Church of Christ.

Of course that tweet itself, like every other variation of “Stop judging, you horrible judging people,’ falls under its own weight. If grace is better than guilt, then those who say we need grace rather than guilt are spreading guilt rather than grace. They are saying that those who preach guilt are guilty. They are right, of course, because we all are. But those who say it’s wrong to preach guilt are herein preaching guilt. Grace for me and mine, guilt for thee and thine.

The truth is we need more grace preached, presented, proffered, practiced, proclaimed. The truth is that there are, in some obscure pockets of the world, preachers who preach only guilt, without preaching the balm of Gilead, the blood of Christ shed for sinners like us. There are far more, however, preachers who preach only “grace,” an anemic, Christ-less denial of our guilt. Sound and biblical preaching (see Peter’s sermon at Pentecost in Acts 2) proclaims with equal vigor the horrible truth that we are all by nature vile sinners, due the just wrath of the Father. But while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom. 5:8). If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (James 1:9). And despite our guilt, because of His grace, all who repent and turn to Him are not only forgiven, but are made the very children of God (I John 1:3). Guilt. Grace. Adoption. Amen.

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Castles in the Sand

Posted on August 11, 2023 by RC

There are, when we disagree, almost always two disagreements. Most of the time the smaller disagreement is the bigger one. Consider election. There are some in the church who believe that God chooses who will believe His gospel. There are others who believe God sees beforehand who will believe. This, on the surface, seems to be the root of the loss of peace between these two groups.

The second disagreement, however, is over this question: just how important an issue is this?
Though there are surely exceptions, by and large those who don’t believe in election are not known for zealously, aggressively not believing in election. Most don’t meet a new Christian and seek to steer the conversation to election. Those of us who do believe in election, on the other hand, believe it to be an issue of great importance. Did we not so believe, were we able to believe in it silently, in the quiet of our own minds, the way non-election believers don’t believe in election silently and in the quiet of their own minds, we might be able to get along better with others.

When, therefore, we seek to rightly draw lines, the issue is almost never the issue. The challenge is in knowing not just what’s right and what’s wrong, but how important something is. Each of us thinks we’ve mastered this art, and we can’t understand why others don’t just get in line.

Intellectually speaking, we are driving down the highway frustrated with those poky drivers who slow us down and irritated by those crazy drivers who whiz by us. We consider those who are more forgiving of the first error to be latitudinarian, slippery, while those who are less forgiving of the second error, we consider to be judgmental and lacking in grace. We end up thinking that the real problem with the church is that everyone isn’t like me.

That we disagree on where to draw lines, however, doesn’t mean there are no correct answers. It simply means that we have a hard time agreeing on the answers. We disagree about when Jesus is coming back, which says nothing at all about the glorious truth that He is coming back. He knows when He is coming back, and that is the most important thing.

Our calling is to get our priorities in line with the one Man who always had them right: Jesus. Let Him who is without sin cast our vision. When we begin to look at things through His eyes, honestly, without recasting Him in our own image, we find not just the right answers but the right priorities. We find that instead of arguing over tithing, we ought actually to be tithing our mint and our cummin while never losing sight of the weightier matters of the Law, such as justice, mercy, and faithfulness (Matt. 23:23).

We learn here also this important truth: that this truth is more important than that truth doesn’t mean that truth is unimportant. Jesus didn’t say, “Why are you tithing your mint instead of pursuing justice? Why are you carefully weighing out your cummin instead of showing mercy?” Instead He said, “These things you ought to have done.” Being right about the more important things no more excuses being wrong about the less important things than not being guilty of murder proves that you are not a tax-cheat. Majoring on the minors, shouting where God has whispered, those are bad things. Neglecting the minors or being silent where God has whispered, those are bad things, too.

Our priorities on what the truly important issues are tend to be determined by what is important to us rather than what is important to Jesus. That is why Jesus warned us. In the Sermon on the Mount, He rightly exposed our selfish ways, noting that we fret and worry about what we will eat and what we will drink. He pointed out that such worries ought to describe only those outside the kingdom. We have a different set of priorities. We are to be about the business of pursuing His kingdom. That means, of course, that we need to be about the King’s business. We have no business of our own. We have been purchased by the King. His agenda is to be ours, His goals ours. How often, I wonder, do we draw lines not because we are called to but because we are setting up the boundaries of our own little fiefdoms? Having drawn our lines in the sand, we next build our sand castles, forgetting that the wind and the waves obey only Him.

Our folly in not pursuing the kingdom, then, drives us to pursue the one solution, His righteousness. We stand firm when we ought to bend, we roll over when we ought to stand. Not Jesus. He alone stands, righteous before His Father. And He bends down to lift us up, that we might stand in His arms. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you: gratitude, peace, courage, grace, and the wisdom to know and to love as He knows and loves. Who could ask for anything more?

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Taking Our Losses

Posted on August 10, 2023 by RC

I’m not as much of a twitter warrior, or I suppose X-man might now be the term, than I once was. The medium I love, with its character limitations driving us more toward the poetic than the precise and careful. But, like many, over the years I’ve learned that the thrill of the battle comes at a high cost. And that real victory is as elusive as Narnia’s White Stag.

Real victory is what happens when a person believes x, engages in a twitter conversation, however long it might be, and through my careful arguments comes to believe non-x. It has happened, about as often as an unassisted triple play. Far more frequently, however, what happens is this. I interact with person believing x. I demonstrate clearly and inescapably, that x is false. Said person leaves the conversation still believing x.

That said, one of the most frequent arguments you’ll find me making these days is that we are all sinners, all blind to our own sins and weaknesses, that our complaints about other humans tend to land on us as well and that our umbrage is more comical than compelling. Years ago, in the days of AOL chatrooms I was visiting a Christian chatroom when who should enter in but a fellow with the handle, “GayforGod.” I determined to sit back and watch. The conversation slowed, discomfort scrambling our modems. Finally, some earnest young believer asked the obvious question, “How can you be gay for God?”

Gay didn’t really have much time to answer because all the other believers in the room first clutched their pearls, then turned on their brother like Antifa after Andy Ngo. “How can you possibly say such a thing?” “Who are you to judge another?” “Jesus welcomed everyone. Why are you being such an un-Christlike jerk?” I let the bile spill all over the information superhighway before finally coming to the young man’s aid. I did so by asking the room, “Don’t you think you all are being just a little judgmental?” “No, no” they insisted, “it’s that cruel un-Christlike jerk that’s being judgmental.” “Don’t you think you all are judging him a little harshly?” Only one person even understood a little bit. “I’m sorry,” he wrote, “I don’t want to be judgmental. I wouldn’t be, except that this young man, well, he was just so judgmental and mean and ugly and awful.”

The lesson here isn’t about homosexuals and their allies. The lesson is that we are all profoundly weak at recognizing when we’ve been beaten. We seem to think that if we refuse to leave the table we’re not really In checkmate. Thinking you are winning when you’ve lost is just losing one more time.

The good news is, however, that losing can be winning. When we see where our own logic failed us, when someone rightly brings God’s Word to bear on our mistakes, we get closer to the truth, if we’re willing to concede. When we confess to a wrong attitude and ask for God’s grace to help us, we find forgiveness and strength to do better. There is no shame in being wrong. The only shame is failing to admit when we are wrong. God gives grace to the humble. Let us be bold about His truth, and humble about ourselves.

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This Week’s JCE- Life & Death and, See How Her Garden Grows

Posted on August 9, 2023 by RC

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Five Common Expressions I’ve Never Understood

Posted on August 8, 2023 by RC

Common sense may be more common than sense. There are any number of shorthand aphorisms in the world and in the church that shape our thinking, but don’t stand up to scrutiny, at least right away. Below are five common expressions that might fit under the banner of common sense, that I just can’t make sense out of. There may be good arguments behind all or some of them, but that is rather a far thing from being a self-evident truth.

1. We shouldn’t judge people. This one we hear from both the world and the church. With the church it even comes complete with a proof-text, Matthew 7:1. While Jesus warns us to not be too quick to judge, to judge with charity, to judge in a manner we would like to be judged, even He is in this very text calling us to judge, but to judge well. A blanket condemnation of all judging is, well, condemning, and therefore judging. It is hoisted on its own petard.

2. Jesus loved the most vile sinners, but hated the Pharisees, the religious conservatives. Really? Did Jesus hate Nicodemus? How about Joseph of Arimathea? They were both Pharisees He was likely rather close to. Did Jesus love the adulterous, incestuous, murderous Herod? How about that spineless and corrupt Pilate? Even a cursory reading of the New Testament reveals that the calculus Jesus used for His grace was rather simple. The question wasn’t how spectacular of a sinner you were, but how repentant you were. When Jesus compared the proud Pharisee who prayed “I thank you God that I am not like other men” to the tax collector who prayed, “Lord be merciful to me, a sinner” (Luke 18) He wasn’t saying the former was bad because he was a Pharisee, and the latter good because he was a tax collector. The difference was in the repentance. What an irony then that in our day we proudly present ourselves as the sinners, praying, “I thank you Lord that I am not like other men. I sin openly and unrepentantly. I mock those who affirm Your law, and do not judge like those vile judgers.”

3. Sending good thoughts your way. What? Have you ever been sitting around, when suddenly a “good thought” popped into your head, followed by this thought, “Hey, how nice of, hmm, let’s see here. What’s the return address on this good thought, so I can thank the sender?” Thoughts a. do not travel across space magically, and b. even if they did they have no magic power to change anything. Weird that people who think praying to the Living God is fruitless and powerless nevertheless think that their sent thoughts can change the future.

4. You always think you’re right. The Creator is always right. Fallen creatures, however, aren’t so fallen as to actually believe that they are always right. We do, those beings that never fell, those that are fallen, those redeemed, even those perfected, however, always believe we’re right. To think I’m always right is to claim to be infallible. To always think I’m right, however, is nothing more than to think. It is to believe what we believe. In addition, that I believe something has no bearing on whether it is true or not. That I always agree with me, just like you always agree with you, doesn’t make me arrogant. It merely means I don’t have a split personality. No one ever said, “I believe X, but I think I’m wrong.”

5. Christians shouldn’t divide over doctrine. The first question I have is, “Well, what should we divide over?” But the more foundational question is, “Who are the Christians?” There are issues that divide Christians and often those divisions are driven by our flesh more than His Spirit. But there are also issues that divide Christians from non-Christians, some of whom actually claim to be Christians. Is claiming to be Christian sufficient to preclude division? Not according to the Bible. The New Testament tells us to have nothing to do with those who preach a different gospel (Galatians 1:8) That’s a doctrinal matter. It tells us we should have nothing to do with professing believers who are sexually immoral (I Corinthians 5). That’s a doctrinal matter. But worst of all, are not those who make this claim dividing themselves from Christians who believe we should divide over doctrine? The statement itself is doctrine, and is divisive.

Common? Yes. Wisdom? Not so much.

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Do you believe in aliens?

Posted on August 7, 2023 by RC

Like, non-human, not-from-here intelligent beings? Of course I do, as does every Bible believer. Some suggest that given the size of the universe it is likely that aliens exist. Others suggest that since the Bible says nothing about aliens they must not exist. The truth is that if the universe were only as large as our solar system, or even smaller, it would make no difference to the question. The truth is as well that the Bible does speak of non-human intelligent beings that not only exist but are active on Earth, having interacted and communicated with humans for millenia. Though they fit within a rough definition, the Bible does not call them aliens but demons (and angels).

The real question is not whether non-human intelligent beings exist but if the sundry phenomena that has captured our imagination of flying saucers, abductions and various other paranormal shenanigans is related to “Martians” or demons. I believe the latter. I find the argument against “Martians,” that they are not mentioned in the Bible fairly compelling. While Narnia manages to show us multiple worlds with a single Creator and a single Redeemer, I find the gospel of our Lord to be too all consuming of a story to be just one of many.

That story, however, is far broader than merely (as if it were a small thing) redeeming us from our sins. The gospel is the story of Jesus, as the second Adam, not only fulfilling the calling of the first Adam, to bring all things under subjection, but includes among those things brought under subjection all principalities and powers. Jesus, after all, changes everything.

We should not be surprised that in a modern age we would tend to see evil spirits are mere technologically advanced versions of ourselves. While moderns complain against our fathers, accusing them of confusing science with magic, post-moderns, showing their modernist roots, are prone to confusing spiritual powers with advanced technology. Could aliens move about in crafts we do not understand? Of course. Could they, from time to time, crash? Of course. Could we find their crashed craft, and even their dead carcasses? Why not? Might they look a bit like us, yet somehow different? Even reptilian? I don’t know why not.

Should we be afraid? Yes, and no. The reality of spiritual warfare should drive us to greater care and diligence. Putting on the whole armor of God is not just a metaphor. Neither are Satan’s fiery darts. That said, we are to be of good cheer, knowing that our Captain and our King has already overcome the world (John 16:33). He has given us the honor and the privilege to participate in the mop up operation against His already defeated foe. He has chosen us as His bride, the second Eve, a helper suitable to Him as He fulfills His good calling.

Little men from other planets? No, I don’t think so. Evil spirits from beyond the natural realm? Most certainly.

If you have a question you’d like me to tackle in my weekly Ask RC column, please fee free to write me at hellorcjr@gmail.com. I’d be happy to give it a try.

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Heralding the Good News

Posted on August 4, 2023 by RC

It is false to say that what we don’t know can’t hurt us, especially when it comes to the Bible. If ever there were anything we need to know, it is the very Word of God. That said, what is in all likelihood worse than what we don’t know about the Bible is what we do know that just isn’t so. Consider the Great Commission.

This, of course, is something we ought to be infinitely familiar with. These are not just the words of Jesus, as if that weren’t enough, but the “last” words of Jesus, His parting command just before He ascends to His heavenly throne. Not only that, but, as we might expect, what He commands is of eternal consequence. Jesus doesn’t tell the disciples to wash behind their ears or to remember to send thank-you cards after Christmas. No, Jesus tells His disciples to bring in the lost, to go to the four corners of the world that all the elect might be redeemed, forgiven, adopted.
And that’s where we stop. It is not only true, but a vital truth, that the Great Commission includes the call to preach the good news, to tell others about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, to call all men everywhere to repent. It is also vitally true that this is not at all the whole of the Great Commission.

Perhaps because we are selfish, or perhaps because we live in an era of cultural decline, too many in the church have adopted a narrow view of the gospel. Jesus, I am told, came to save my soul. Once that is accomplished, my sole calling is to be used by Him to seek the salvation of others. If God should so bless, these new believers in turn have as their sole calling the winning of still more souls. The good news, under this perspective, is that Jesus came to save sinners.

Yes, of course, Jesus came to save sinners. However, He did not come just to save souls. He came to save bodies. He came to save families. He came to save churches. He came to save communities. He came to save nations. He came to save, to redeem, to remake the whole groaning creation. He calls us, the church, His bride, to be the Eve to His Adam, a help suitable to Him in the great work of dominion.

We need not leave the Great Commission to see this. The command, along with the fullness of the gospel, is there already. We are called here to make disciples of the nations. Now some might argue that this still focuses on the winning of souls. “Nations,” in this view, isn’t the political or cultural institutions of a given land. Instead, it refers to the need to take the message to the outermost parts of the world. We are not to sit on our haunches, content that we and our kindred are redeemed, but we are to cross land and sea, seeking by the Spirit to make children of hell into the children of God.

Fair enough. Even if this part of the Great Commission is focused on soul winning, what do we do with the next part — “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded”? Jesus certainly commanded throughout His earthly ministry that we repent, that we believe on His name. But is that all that He commanded? Did He not also command us to be meek, to be peacemakers, to mourn? He commanded that we should hunger and thirst for righteousness. He, in turn, told us where to find that righteousness, reminding us that not one jot or tittle of the law would pass away. He taught us to pray that His kingdom would come on earth as it has in heaven. How would we know such was happening? Because His will would be done here, as it is there.

Our labors, then, in instructing the found, in calling them toward godliness, in pursuing obedience, are not distractions from the Great Commission but fulfillments of it. Of course, we must seek His righteousness, that righteousness that can become ours only by the faith He must first give us. But we are called also to seek His kingdom. That kingdom, as the Lord’s Prayer demonstrates, is not just an invisible realm within the hearts of believers. Rather, it is everywhere, especially where His own joyfully confess Him.

Discipling the nations, teaching them to observe all that He has commanded, then, isn’t polishing the brass on a sinking ship. It is instead cultivating the mustard seed. A failure to disciple the nations even as we evangelize them, on the other hand, isn’t to be about the most important work. It is instead to run the ship aground.

The social gospel was all social and no gospel. Mere pietism, on the other hand, is impious. We are to proclaim the lordship of Christ over our souls, over our bodies, over our families, over our churches, over our communities, over our nations, over the whole of the groaning creation. So, let us repent and preach the good news, that the kingdom of God has come, that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of the Father, and that of the increase of His government there will be no end.

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Ensnared in Their Own Net

Posted on August 3, 2023 by RC

It’s not something I’m terribly proud of, but while I was in high school I read a dozen or more novels by Taylor Caldwell. I can’t remember why, which isn’t a good sign. Among those novels, however, one remains firmly etched in my memory. Among other rare ideological commitments that she had, she was prone to embracing standard one-world government, Illuminati, Tri-Lateral Commission style conspiracy theories. The novel I remember, however, I remember due to the clever strategy that drove her plot. It was called The Devil’s Advocate. A bargain basement Anthem or 1984, it described a nation caught in the grip of a totalitarian regime.

Those heroes who sought to set the nation free determined that they would infiltrate the government. Not to suddenly proclaim liberty, but to clamp down, to make things worse. They lowered the rations not only for the common man, but for all those who had been privileged. Military leadership was required to live under the same austerity as everyone else. Party hacks were downsized. Those who profited from the purported ideology were required to live the same as those who were shackled by it. It was no longer party against party, class against class but now everyone against the state. It worked.

What would happen if professional climate alarmists were required to live in light of their message, to have the carbon footprint of a ballerina? What if everyone pushing for reparations or other forms of wealth redistribution had to start with themselves? What if homophobes were to be declared a protected class, just as deserving of protections as homosexuals? What if those seeking to take our guns were no longer allowed to have armed security? What if protestors, whether protesting against racism or against COVID restrictions were both treated the same? What if jackbooted thugs came for everyone, including jackbooted thugs?

The Bible has language to describe this, “Let them be caught in the trap they have laid.” TwiXter was all abuzz last week when video was released showing Aquilino Gonell in fine fettle after he claimed to have been nearly killed on January 6. He testified under oath before Congress and in the courts that he was nearly beaten to death. It appears that CCTV is exposing him for the liar that he is. Perhaps CCTV will in turn expose if any wrongdoing led to the death of the Obama’s chef. What if the very surveillance apparatus set up by those who hate liberty ends up exposing their own wicked acts? What if CBDC makes it impossible for shady politicians to launder their millions in bribe money? What if every machine built to seize our liberties ends up exposing those who would seize them?

It is hard to not be frightened as the state grows more invasive and ruthless. It’s hard to imagine the nefarious ends they will be able to seek through increasing technology. At the end of the day, however, our God reigns. It is not true that Gideon’s 300 men defeated the Midianite army of 135,000 men. Instead, Gideon’s 300 men watched as God brought to pass the Midianite army destroying itself. Our God is the great God and we, even should we suffer death, are safe in His good hands.

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Sacred Marriage, 10 Commandments; Boycotts & More

Posted on August 2, 2023 by RC

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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