Or, hear me out, you can just get to know people instead of being a weirdo.
Blake Callens
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Blake Callens
@blakecallens
Disciple of Jesus Christ. Guitar nerd. Pickleball enthusiast. Student of totalitarian and nativist history. Refusenik of the business of Christianity.
- Replying to @lorddarrinNope, inorganically shoving your extra-biblical requirements into a conversation with someone you literally just met is super weird.
- Tim Keller went into one of the deepest blue areas in America and built a ministry hyper-focused on the gospel. Many of the people he led to Christ remained politically left-leaning. That only upsets people who have wrongly declared right-wing politics a fruit of the Spirit.
- Replying to @AGuyReborn“Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” Come back when you have the courage to say such things with your real identity.
- Replying to @blakecallensMe, a guy who’s been married over a decade, with three kids who are homeschooled, when the pastor at the church I’m visiting converses with me in this way:
GIF - This is not Christianity. We are told, in no uncertain terms, in Romans 12:14 to not curse our enemies. Any pastor who would lead his congregation in an imprecation (curse) of a named individual is a false teacher, period.
- If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. —1 John 4:20 This is the behavior of an unregenerate man.
- Maybe it’s just me, but if I’m buying a book titled “Shepherds for Sale” I expect it to contain indisputable proof of at least one shepherd taking a payout to publicly promote something he provably didn’t believe. Otherwise it’s just “Shepherds With Politics I Don’t Like.”
- If at any point a pastor has sexual relations with a congregant whom he's not married to, he has permanently disqualified himself from the office. He should, under no circumstances, be reinstated.
- I have no idea why Christian Nationalists can’t get women to show up to their singles’ events.
- Tim Keller's apologetic was a huge part of breaking through my wife's agnosticism and drawing her back to Christ, so I couldn't care less what the Christian media tribe directly tied to all of the dudes coming out as "race realists" thinks of how he described white evangelicals.
- When I stand before Christ I would rather have been wrong about world affairs but right about how I treated people than the other way around.
- Have you ever killed a man, David? I've killed two. I would do everything in my power to avoid doing it again. As far as I know about you, you're a PK with no military experience.
- Replying to @KSPriorI had to pass a background check before I could work with the youth at my church. I wouldn’t have my kids in a youth program that didn’t require that. It should be the norm.