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Fredericksburg, VA
Joined February 2012
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Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
For 2023 don’t livestream any service if your church isn’t ready for prime time. There’s no place for poor English, dizzying colors, inadequate lighting, poor singing and unprepared remarks. Pastors stop delegating and take charge.
Church leaders, you need to decide who you're going to lose: the people in your community who don't know the love of Christ, or the church member who thinks the church revolves around him (or her). careynieuwhof.com/5-big-surp… via @cnieuwhof
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
The Collective Kill: When a person is socially murdered by a group, by means of a thousand little cuts of shunning and shaming, negating and neglecting, minimizing and maligning, poking and pushing, so no one person is technically to blame and the group need not feel responsible.
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
I believe with all my heart that renewal is coming to the church. But it won’t be the revival of us taking back anything; it’s gonna be the revival of us laying down everything. It’s the church returning to the way of the cross. We are Jesus people.
If Christians become more like the authentic church, the more people will want to be part of it. The less we do, the more they don't. careynieuwhof.com/the-self-a… via @cnieuwhof
The church has been harsh, judgmental, exclusionary and too often, abusive. These aren't qualities people should expect from Christians, but too often, that's exactly what Christians have shown them. careynieuwhof.com/the-self-a… via @cnieuwhof
80% of practicing Christians have a positive view of the church. Only 21% of non-Christians think of the church in a positive way. That's a startling gap. careynieuwhof.com/the-self-a… via @cnieuwhof
Sometimes the people who are closest to us are the people who make us unable to hear the voice of Jesus. - @markaclark careynieuwhof.com/5-cultural… via @cnieuwhof
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
When the Adventist Church's favorability was ranked with other faiths and denominations, the church was listed as largely unfavorable, with a ranking of 13 out of 17 — with 17 the most unfavorable. #nadyem21 #adventistnews #adventist
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Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
Hyper critical people have private dysfunction masquerading as public holiness.
“You cannot at the same time think wrongly and live rightly. You cannot believe error and practice truth.”
#ThinkrightBelievetruth
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
'The only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of bigotry and discrimination. I'm tired of it' — @AOC just flipped the entire ‘religious freedom’ argument on its head