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Ministry That Obsesses Over Gender

There is neither male nor female in Jesus Christ. Ministry that acknowledges this helps people mature.

A mature Christian doesn’t reinforce and strengthen and embitter one another based on gender. He is not obsessed with gender roles.

The best ministry acknowledges that gender is a non issue in Jesus Christ. It is not something to get obsessed over perceived slights and errors.

Paul said somewhere to “Put off the old man and put on the new man in Jesus Christ.” Part of the “old man” is our gender.

Don’t hide behind and celebrate gender related issues problems. Excusing and even celebrating them, drives wedges between people. If you feel inclined to do that go for it but Jesus Christ is not doing that nor did he during his earthly ministry. He treated women as equals and not as inferiors.

We don’t have gender in Jesus Christ, I think we should act accordingly.

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Owning Our Own Content

I am feeling a bit frustrated with Facebook. I am increasingly becoming a person who believes in owning your own content.

Facebook uses our content and our relationships for financial gain. If one person posts something insightful or interesting or controversial then I login to see it and engage with it, who benefits? The middle man, in this example it is Facebook but many others do it. They then take it upon themselves to sell our data and regulate what we see as if they have a right to regulate the public.

They make effort to keep people on their platform with algorithms that decrease visibility of posts that link off of their site.

We give them that right by logging into their platforms and posting our content.

My Own Space

That is changing for me, my content goes on my own site, right here at AdamCollier.com. I am changing the way I use and view facebook. If friends and family really care about what I am sharing they can find it here. I have a good amount of traffic from SEO, I don’t need to share on Facebook.

If friends and family don’t want to come to my site do they really care what I have to say anyhow? And if not that is ok, I can move on to the few who do.

For more on this check out this Lewis Howes interview with Cal Newport.

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Seeking First Ease & Pleasure

The opposite of “seeking first the kingdom of Jesus Christ” can very often be seeking first our ease and pleasure in life.

When avoiding at all cost discomfort or disadvantage (as compared to our neighbors) occupies much of our thought lives, and prayer lives. Even while doing churchy or religious things.

Much of Christianity today is in the business of promoting and justifying this self-seeking way of thinking.

Teachers think and teach that since “Jesus is for me, and not against me” so it must be ok for me to also be all about and for me.

Jesus is for me yes but he’s not for all of me. He’s not for what Paul called “the old man”. The part of me that is fallen and selfish and that is destined for death.

He is for the new man in me, the man of the ecclesia that is united to Christ and seated with him in heavenly places.

There is part of the Christian that needs to die daily. To not get his/her way in life. To be disciplined and actually be destroyed.

That human fallen side to us, God is not for him, he is in fact AGAINST that guy. And that guy is part of every one of us.

There is another part of a Christian that is an overcomer. That is seated with Christ high above the heavens. That does love and is part of a community of believers. That man/woman does need to be public and reach out and display Jesus Christ together with others and individually.

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