Bethany @bethany@dingdash.com

@sinbach I think almost everything is worthy of unpacking more and possibly debating with one another 😁

@sinbach that's exactly how I feel, interestingly. Is it a potentially damaging message without context? Yes. I think so. I recently heard a pastor online say "it doesn't matter if you don't believe in God, because God believes in you".... I almost vomited.
So the suggestion of perfection I think is unhelpful. But if his point really is entirely wrong, that would remove every aspect of individuality from every believer. We'd be clones who all looked and acted the same, which is not God's design. Are we transformed as we become more like Christ? Yes. But by doing so, we die to self, to flesh and to the world and we're left with who God ultimately intended us to be. I think.
Just a thought.

@sinbach I know the obvious answer is that he's wrong, but the more I've sat here and thought about it the more I think he may have miscommunicated.
I suppose MAYBE it's possible that he's suggesting that God sees our potential - the version of ourselves that he created us to be without all our mess and our sin, and in some way that is who we really are in his sight.
But that only goes so far - the only way we get there is by dying to self, renewing our mind, and ultimately by being *transformed* to become more like Christ.
It's actually an interesting conversation

@sinbach did I like that one? I don't remember. Sometimes your movies all blur into one in my head

@Berrybunchfamily sounds great!

@Berrybunchfamily I can't tell you why this brings me so much entertainment. but it does. Every time 😂

@sinbach of course this is what you watch in your spare time... 😂

@Will here we go again... I'm getting dejavu

@Will are you trying to suggest I have no survival skills?? (obviously you'd be right - I'm just surprised you have the nerve to suggest it to me... 😂)

@Will your readiness to abandon me is touching

@Olamide great Monday motivation as always, friend! Looking forward to the series 🙏🏼🔥

@Will no, don't get your hopes up. Just me and the sheep 😂

@sinbach @Berrybunchfamily I wonder what the cause and effect situation is there? Are there more women priests ("priestesses"? I don't know, that sounds weird) because there are less men in the church, or are there less men in the church because there are more female priests?

@Berrybunchfamily @sinbach wow, this is super sad