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Fredericksburg, VA
Joined February 2012
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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.
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.
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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.
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
bit.ly/day2NADYEM
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Hyper critical people have private dysfunction masquerading as public holiness.
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'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
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Well said, @Captsully. This moment calls for all of us to step up and do our part.
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
When Jesus says, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” He suggests that my nearest neighbor is me. Self-hate makes love of others impossible. First I must know myself to be loved by God, from which I will love myself as God does. Then from that healthy love of myself I can love you.
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
You don’t need to be black to be outraged. You need to be American and be outraged.
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Prediction: In the next two years there will be a large exodus of pastors from the pastorate. Every pastor I talk with is exhausted and, to a degree, frustrated. Theological and ideological differences between pastor and parishioners is increasing. It’s not sustainable.
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
"While we will endeavor to keep the 'unity of the Spirit' in the bonds of peace, we will not with pen or voice cease to protest against bigotry"—the American writer @ellenwhite. Looks like protest against bigotry keeps good company.
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
One of the hardest things to do in leadership is to help people understand there is more than this.
Humans usually prefer the disfunction they know rather than the healing they don't. Not because it's fabulous but because its familiar.
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
⚫️ What will NOT revitalize a church
-A new mission statement
-A new logo
-Statements on walls
-New paint
-Chairs > pews
-New music
-At the movies sermons
-expository preaching alone
-a PhD alone
🔴 What WILL revitalize a church?
- Holy Spirit in prayer – at Peculiar, MO
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
1/4 Everybody knows YOU didn't own slaves. We're all perfectly aware of the historical timeline. Nobody is saying YOU owned slaves, so you can go ahead and stop responding to a point that isn't being made and genuinely try to hear the actual point that is being made. #Reparations
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
“Lament for a Synagogue and America”—and we can do more than pray. We can speak out from our churches, from our schools, from our neighborhoods. America can still be saved. But if we keep turning a blind eye to the impending crisis, ours will be the most damning blindness.
Maxwell Ferguson retweeted
Words exist to compose sentences. Sentences are composed to describe characters & events. Characters & events are described to tell stories. By reducing the Bible to a prooftext manual to formulate doctrinal beliefs detached from the story, we have drained Scripture of its power.
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Final Blog Reflection.The Jews missed baby Jesus because they were too arrogant to hear Non-Adventists....I mean the Magi. @NADadventist @spectrummag @Adventist_News @AdventistToday @NADEvangelism @PastorCCT drjessewilson.com/adventist-… – at Nevada, USA