Little girl comes up to me after church…
Girl: “How tall are you?”
Me: “6’10”!”
Girl: “Wow! How old are you?”
Me: “I’m 57. I’m big and old!”
Girl: “Wow! You are going to need a
big coffin!”
Brian Fikkert
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Brian Fikkert
@Fikkert
Founder of Chalmers Center; Professor of Economics & Community Development at Covenant College; Love Jesus, my family, & Green Bay Packers
- When interviewed to be an Assistant Professor @CovenantCollege 24 years ago, a board member asked me if I was able to hold ideas in tension. I wasn’t sure what he was getting at, but I now see the inability to hold ideas in tension as one of the key problems in culture & church.
- Could we please stop using the label “white evangelical” as the mark of the beast? Many in this group have given their lives to advance Christ’s kingdom and deserve to be treated with honor rather than disdain.
- Brothers & Sisters in Christ, the vitriol being unleashed on @drantbradley & @irwyn is simply evil. We need to stand w/ these brothers in the face of wolves in sheep’s clothing. Doing so exposes us to the wolves’ attack. But the Great Shepherd is with us.
- I'm all for a more humble and embracing posture on the part of the church. But at the end of the day, the Bible is absolute truth and Jesus is the only way. And those realities are inherently divisive.
- I do not find shrill, accusatory, or sarcastic voices from any perspective on the theological spectrum--left, center, or right--to be compelling. We are all far too broken to be so self-righteous. And the King we claim to be serving comes gentle, riding on the foal of a donkey.
- Post-Eden, we are all refugees, displaced people unable to return to our home. Hence, Immanuel, God with us, is the greatest refugee resettlement program in all of history. As resettled refugees, God's people should be on the forefront of resettling others.
- Guns don't kill people; deranged people with guns in their hands kill people. So, pass gun control laws that keep guns out of the hands of deranged people; and work to stop people from becoming deranged. It's both/and.
- It is possible to be passionate about poverty and social justice without undermining the authority of Scripture. Indeed, it is because I believe in the Bible's unique authority that I care about poverty and social justice.
- Because I'm a Christian, I believe government should protect rights of people of all faiths. Religious screening of refugees is immoral.
- Replying to @charlieo954I was about 4 years old the first time I saw a body in a casket. I thought they’d cut the person’s legs off. So they opened up the lower half to show me the whole thing. My dad was a pastor so I had to tag along to a lot of funerals.
- Everybody is a sinner, and sinners do bad things, including creating broken and oppressive systems. This should not be controversial.
- America is an experiment. The church is not. Don’t try to mix them in the same Petri dish.
- Two more ways to hurt poor people while trying to help: 1. Telling a poor person that they are at fault when they are the actually the victim of an oppressive system. 2. Telling a poor person that they are the victim of an oppressive system when actually they are at fault.