INSTANT REGRET: This is Why You Never Mess With God

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Twitter is the worst place on earth. Oh wait, or was that TikTok or 4chan?

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Regardless, Twitter is up there somewhere. Thankfully, there are Christians on Twitter who can speak truth and shine the light of the gospel in the darkness that is

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Twitter. At the same time, however, there are other Christians who use Twitter to promote some questionable ideas.

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Why do we care about what these Christians tweet? Well, when you tweet on Twitter, you're basically publicly promoting what you believe.

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You're trying to teach people. And if what you're teaching is unbiblical, it's loving to call out unbiblical teaching and protect people from being led astray.

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Of course, there are countless Christians who tweet countless unbiblical ideas. Here, we'll just go through a small portion of them.

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We'd say we're progressing to the most shocking at the end, but honestly, they're all pretty shocking.

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Joel Osteen's tweets are like fortune cookies where you never hear about the problem of sin and hell that you need to be saved from.

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For example, your character will determine how high you go. Your character is more important than your competence.

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What you do in private when no one is watching will determine how high God takes you. Um, our character determines how high

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God takes us. Standard, you can be better stuff we hear from Joel Osteen.

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We also see prosperity gospel, word of faith tweets like when you speak victory, you're moving toward victory.

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When you speak health, you're moving toward health. When you speak abundance, overflow, more than enough, you're moving toward abundance.

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Ah, the heretical idea that we can speak things into existence just like God. Jackie Hill Perry is the author of Gay Girl, Good God, which tells the story of Perry turning away from the

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LGBTQ lifestyle. I have lots of respect for what Perry did and appreciate her understanding of what repentance looks like.

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I would have to change who I am to be a member of your church. The language would be repentance. There needs to be some repentance here.

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For my marriage? Yeah. Perry also appeared in the American Gospel documentary, an excellent documentary about the unbiblical doctrines of the prosperity gospel and word of faith movement.

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However, Perry has since renounced being in this documentary. Responding to the question, will you do another

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American Gospel type of documentary? Perry wrote, probably not. I deeply dislike the tribalism and theological superiority those types of films encourage.

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I did it then, won't ever do it again. It's one thing to divide over trivial, insignificant issues.

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It's another to divide over issues that are central and foundational to the gospel, which is what

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American Gospel did. Is Perry saying Christians shouldn't identify and warn people about heretical teachings?

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I certainly hope not. However, Perry seems to be continuing to partner with and endorse problematic people.

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Recently, Perry tweeted, say what you want about Farrakhan because there's a whole lot to say, but this right here is facts.

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If you don't know who Louis Farrakhan is, Farrakhan is a blatant anti -Semite who has tweeted,

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I'm not an anti -Semite, I'm anti -termite. Allie Beth Stuckey, a

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Christian conservative, responded to Perry's tweet saying, I have long disagreed with Jackie Hill Perry's takes on social justice, et cetera, issues even while I've appreciated her other perspectives.

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I'm shocked to see her positively tweeting out videos of Farrakhan. This is no different than someone tweeting out a video of David Duke.

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Let me also add, if I tweeted something similar about David Duke, I would lose every job and opportunity

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I have. She will suffer no consequences. Instead, those who criticize her will be called divisive.

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And indeed, Perry has criticized those who have called her out over problematic things she has said, tweeting, pray for bullies, the so -called

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Christian ones whose platforms thrive only when they have an enemy of some sort. If and when they don't have a ministry or person to critique they won't have two legs to stand on.

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May they find God, may they discover love. But as we've mentioned before, true love tells people the truth and warns people about unbiblical teachings.

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Perry has tweeted and said numerous other problematic things, but we'll just stop here for now.

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Tim Keller, founder and pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, used to be someone

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I greatly respected. Many of his teachings are very solid and Keller made many good points in his book,

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The Reason for God. However, in recent years, Keller just keeps on saying more and more things that are quite problematic.

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Very recently, Keller tweeted, churches must not maintain unity at the expense of the gospel.

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Churches should not destroy unity or fellowship over political differences. Of course, there are certain political differences the church shouldn't divide over, but other political differences aren't just political differences.

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They are moral differences and moral differences are deeply tied to the gospel.

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Keller also tweeted, Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the

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Bible -believing religious people of his day. However, our churches do not have the same effect, which can only mean one thing.

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Our preaching and practices are not declaring the same message that Jesus did. No, Jesus's teaching offended the non -Bible -believing hypocritical

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Pharisees. Keller's desire to reach the culture is certainly admirable, but his willingness to compromise or downplay clear biblical truths leads to serious problems.

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Keller seems to not even be willing to stand firmly against abortion, tweeting, the

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Bible tells me that abortion is a sin and great evil, but it doesn't tell me the best way to decrease or end abortion in this country, nor which policies are most effective.

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The current political parties offer a potpourri of different positions on these and many, many other topics.

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But no, one political party has absolutely no desire to decrease or end abortion, and the other party does.

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This should be simple. Jamar Tisby is a contributor to the

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Gospel Coalition and the president of The Witness, a black Christian collective. In response to Donald Trump winning the presidency in 2016,

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Tisby wrote, I really, this Sunday, don't feel safe worshiping with white people.

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I go to a church that is predominantly white and reformed. I am part of a denomination that is overwhelmingly white and reformed.

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I know dozens and dozens and dozens of people personally who are great people individually, good relationships with them, generous, all those things.

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But right now, I feel betrayed by the church, not the church universal. I know that Christ is still the cornerstone.

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I know that in an eschatological sense, nothing will prevail against the church and this is my home.

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We are Christ's bride and that hasn't changed, certainly not because of a little thing like a presidential election.

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However, let's be real. We live in the real world. On Sunday, I have to go to a physical building with a local congregation filled with people who, just like me, are sinners.

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And I know for certain that in many of the congregations I've been a member or worshiped in, there are folks who are overtly, outright, boldly

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Trump supporters who are happy right now. And I cannot emotionally bring myself to be comfortable with that.

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And going in on Sunday morning and singing songs and praying with this group of people who seem so out of touch with my experience in America.

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Tisby treats white Christians as being objectively wrong for supporting the political party that generally upholds traditional biblical values, even if they voted for the party in spite of Trump.

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This kind of attitude toward any Christian who does not support his social justice agenda is characteristic of Tisby's work.

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Tisby was recently hired by Ibram X. Kendi, one of the foremost proponents of critical race theory and numerous other unbiblical ideologies.

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Kendi tweeted, I'd like to warmly welcome Jamar Tisby, our new assistant director of narrative and advocacy.

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And Ali Henney, vice president of Tisby's The Witness, tweeted, I'm getting concerned about the growing number of trash pandas who are running for political office and grabbing for influence in other ways.

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I'm concerned because they are being slash going to be weaponized by the wrong people and held up as proof that these people and institutions aren't racist when we know good and well they are.

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Wow. Without any shame, she calls all black people who don't support their agenda trash pandas an extremely derogatory term.

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To her and Tisby, these kinds of black conservatives are merely weapons in the hands of white people, not individuals who are fighting for what they believe in.

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Stephen Furtick is the pastor of Elevation Church, one of the largest mega churches in the country. Furtick recently quietly deleted this

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Facebook post. Following Jesus doesn't change you into something else. It reveals who you've been all along.

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What would it be like to see the you that God sees? This is a shockingly heretical post that doesn't recognize the centrality of regeneration and new life that comes from God through the work of the

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Holy Spirit. He's saying if anyone, if anyone is in Christ, in Christ is another way of saying if anyone is

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Christian, if anyone is saved, they are a new creature.

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Are you a new creature? Furtick deleted this tweet, but only because of the backlash, not because he doesn't believe it since he has never apologized for it and actually still has a sermon up that explicitly teaches this.

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And the process of discipleship is not God changing you into something else.

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It's him revealing who you've been all along.