{"id":10969,"date":"2019-09-18T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2019-09-18T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:31:44","slug":"opposing-tweets-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10969","title":{"rendered":"Opposing tweets of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whether you are preparing for the pastorate, the mission field, or the classroom, I want to personally invite you to come to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBTS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SBTS<\/a> Preview Day this fall on October 18th. You can register for free with code, THEBRIEFING. Register here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OnXUevac1z\">https:\/\/t.co\/OnXUevac1z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QENVgRUthf\">pic.twitter.com\/QENVgRUthf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/1174332507854163969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Clergy Project Has Now Helped 1,000 Pastors Walk Away from the Pulpit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lvwLBsp5D4\">https:\/\/t.co\/lvwLBsp5D4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AhFGL6GeqQ\">pic.twitter.com\/AhFGL6GeqQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hemantmehta\/status\/1174318672719970304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mohler has for several years been encouraging quick marriage and pregnancy, and I&#8217;m convinced it&#8217;s because that makes it difficult for seminarians to leave in favor of serious education.  Just imagine a young man who is a couple of years in and suddenly realizes the storyline is crazy and he doesn&#8217;t believe it.  BUT:  His parents are bursting with pride at his choice of career, he has a child, and faculty with one eye on their retirement accounts are crooning that doubt is a commonplace; it&#8217;ll go away.  Also, he is married to a woman reared from childhood to be a preacher&#8217;s wife, and she is <i>never<\/i> going to be a good sport about four more years in married student housing while he studies some bullshit atheist thing like physics.<\/p>\n<p>So he stays, gets his degree and sets out, literally, to save the world &#8212; which laughs at him because, <i>Hey!<\/i>, that story is crazy and the cult-ish ethics harm people, and the people around them, if they&#8217;re foolish enough to take it seriously.  Now he is in the net with, mostly, people too dumb to know that the Christian narrative is crazy and untrue &#8212; and they&#8217;re looking to <i>him<\/i> for guidance on how to live.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the problem, and it&#8217;s a tribute to the genuine need for the Clergy Project that it keeps growing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are preparing for the pastorate, the mission field, or the classroom, I want to personally invite you to come to @SBTS Preview Day this fall on October 18th. You can register for free with code, THEBRIEFING. 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