Bethany @bethany@dingdash.com

@sinbach it's probably a good job you weren't there. I think I'd be visiting you behind bars

@sinbach the question is... would it be a real person? 😬

@weavers4jesus praying for you guys and all you're doing there 🙏🏼

@sinbach how are people just going to stand there like that??? It's not even about Christian men. Everyone on that train had an obligation to respond. This kind of stuff just... 🤬

@Berrybunchfamily @Lindseyay she's as Yorkshire as they come 😉

@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