Reclaiming Jesus from his church

[Nevilledog]

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Peter Wehner
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"When the Christian faith is politicized, churches become repositories not of grace but of grievances, places where tribal identities are reinforced, where fears are nurtured, and where aggression and nastiness are sacralized."

The Evangelical Church Is Breaking Apart
Christians must reclaim Jesus from his church.
theatlantic.com
7:18 AM · Oct 24, 2021

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/evangelical-trump-christians-politics/620469/

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The election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold necessary to be installed.

“A small group of people, inside and outside this church, coordinated a divisive effort to use disinformation in order to persuade others to vote these men down as part of a broader effort to take control of this church,” David Platt, a 43-year-old minister at McLean Bible Church and a best-selling author, charged in a July 4 sermon.

Platt said church members had been misled, having been told, among other things, that the three individuals nominated to be elders would advocate selling the church building to Muslims, who would convert it into a mosque. In a second vote on July 18, all three nominees cleared the threshold. But that hardly resolved the conflict. Members of the church filed a lawsuit, claiming that the conduct of the election violated the church’s constitution.

Platt, who is theologically conservative, had been accused in the months before the vote by a small but zealous group within his church of “wokeness” and being “left of center,” of pushing a “social justice” agenda and promoting critical race theory, and of attempting to “purge conservative members.” A Facebook page and a right-wing website have targeted Platt and his leadership. For his part, Platt, speaking to his congregation, described an email that was circulated claiming, “MBC is no longer McLean Bible Church, that it’s now Melanin Bible Church.”

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[patphil]

1. Charged with "wokeness"?

I guess they feel better when their religious leaders are asleep to the needs of the community.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. But they'll suck up leftist, woke, taxpayers' subsidization like greedy Hoovers.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

Like today's evangelical/religious right supporters, Trump is a Political Christian, not a Christian of faith.

[harumph]

4. It's done - stick a fork in it.

[dalton99a]

5. The only true church is The Church of Trump

All others are run by Cannibal Pedophile Antifa Communists

[twin_ghost]

6. The story of Jesus is a myth.

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The only time a man can walk on water is when it is frozen. It is impossible for a dead person to be brought back to life that has been dead for 3 or 4 days. I'm sure the bread and fish story left out the part where Jesus' disciples ordered it before the meeting. We live then die and there is no so called after life.

[Sibelius Fan]

11. This

[JHB]

7. A point that has it reversed: "The aggressive, disruptive, and unforgiving mindset that...

...characterizes so much of our politics has found a home in many American churches."

What do you mean "found"? Where do you think most of it originated?

[msongs]

8. billions raped tortured and murdered in 2000 years. nt

[struggle4progress]

9. It's time to hear some Woody

[hatrack]

10. Good! Let them devour one another until the Rapture, which (btw) will never happen

The sooner we're rid of these fucking Holy Tapeworms, the better.