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You are the light of your neighborhood. You are the light of your office. You are the light of your school. You are the light of your gym. You are the light of your little league.
Are you making an effort to shine?
These numbers are hard to ignore:
• 800+ SBC churches reported in last 7 years
• 75% involved alleged sexual abuse
• 58% of churches run background checks
• About 1/3 trained on reporting abuse
This is why trust has been breaking down for a long time.
In my latest commentary for @ChristianIndex, I explain why reform didn’t cause the crisis — it exposed it.
Read it here: christianindex.org/stories/c…
As pastors and church leaders, what step do you think would help rebuild trust the most?
I still have hope.
Trust can be rebuilt when we commit to hearing survivors first while also protecting due process for the accused.
That’s the heart of my latest commentary.
Reply below.
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Excited to gather with the @RehobothAtlanta Church Family this morning! @chriswaye & his family will join us, and you don't want to miss the message Chris will share as he speaks of their ministry in London. See you at 10:30am!
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Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, this is neither humorous nor honorable. If you desire God Almighty's favor, especially during a war, you should humble yourself before the only One who truly can save you in this life and the next.
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About 3:00pm, Jesus said, “It is finished.” Did you hear it? It’s complete! It’s fulfilled! It’s paid in full! The law fulfilled, and the penalty of sin paid. Death was defeated, and He bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Sunday is coming!!
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You’re invited to celebrate Easter Sunday with us!
Start your morning at the Sunrise Service at the new Tucker Town Green, then join us at Rehoboth for a powerful and inspiring celebration.
Experience these two special celebrations and bring someone with you!
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Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, 21 but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” . . . He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will. . . . 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗸𝘂𝗹𝗹, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺. Luke 23:20-32
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Grateful to work with @jeffdalrymple, @JasonedwinDees, @ecap_standards and great partners to offer this important day of training to help make safer churches. baptistpress.com/resource-li…
"Chairman Brian Strickland addressed Swinson after her testimony. 'I thank you for your courage,' he said, 'because we would not have bills like this without people like you being willing to share your story. And I can’t imagine how hard it is to have to share your story, but unfortunately, sometimes it’s necessary to pass meaningful legislation.' " christianindex.org/stories/g…
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This Georgia bill is necessary to expand protections against sexual abuse. Full support!
Honored to be able to testify today for @GABaptist in support of SB 542 with Sen. Randy Robertson & Hayle Swinson along with her friends. This bill adds to the Georgia statute for "improper sexual contact by employee or agent," to also include clergy members within its scope.
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Intelligent Design!
The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.
1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.
The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.
Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.
And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”
This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.
We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.
The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.
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Having just returned from time with partners in Africa, I am looking forward to gathering with our Rehoboth family tomorrow. If you are not able to join us in person, join us online.
Snow is falling, but we’re still gathering tomorrow❄️ Pastor Troy begins our new series, Saved on Purpose.
🚗 Use your best judgment when traveling. Can’t make it? Join us via livestream on Facebook, YouTube, or rehoboth.org/live
9:15AM Bible Fellowship | 10:30AM Worship
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Disrupting a Christian service, whether by government force or political protest, undermines the sacred space where people gather to commune with God. The First Amendment exists to protect this freedom, but beyond law, the Christian church's gathering is meant to be a place of worship . . . not a political battleground.
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