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Jordan Green XIII.
Young man in this world serving the Most High Chief Shepherd. Vibe with me.
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How did a man born of Eastern descent, a man who called himself the Prince of Peace, a man whom the sacred writings describe as eating with prostitutes and providing wine at weddings and healing the sick and ignoring any political plot, a man who wants us to turn the other cheek and give all our possessions if we are sued, become associated with—no, become the poster boy for—a Western moral and financial agenda communicated through the rhetoric of war and ignorant of the damage it is causing to a world living in poverty?

My only answer is that Satan is crafty indeed.

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Donald Miller (via hislivingpoetry)
cheetoincognito:

Love these two
whoisbiancamorgan:

this will always be my favorite gif
rifflememoir:

The Great Gatsby, Chapter III:
"It seems to me we’ve given up on the idea of unity so long ago that maybe God has said, “OK, you don’t want to be unified — I get it. You each want your own way. Well, have at it. Scatter and scatter and scatter until there is no more Church, just a multitude of individual believers on the earth. Plant more and more new churches in areas where there are already congregations. Call it devotion to mission, or call it my blessing, or something cool like ‘catching the next wave.’ You have the truth, after all, and you can rescue those who just call themselves Christians but don’t really know what it means like you do.

“Oh yes, and don’t ever pray for the Catholics, the Orthodox, the Methodists, the Lutherans, the Baptists, the Pentecostals, the Mennonites or the non-denominational churches in town. Don’t ever mention their names except to describe what you disagree with them about. For heaven’s sake, don’t ever join with them in mission to relieve suffering in your communities in my name. In fact, it’s probably better if you simply ignore them altogether. They may not be real Christians after all.”

Maybe God said one day, “Hey, I have an idea. Since you don’t like each other and don’t think that other so-called Christians really understand the truth, why don’t you forbid each other from taking Communion at your tables? You can back it up with Scripture. I have given all of you plenty of room to interpret things differently in the Bible. Whenever you can, magnify those differences and make them matters for separation. Build your walls high. Just disregard all those passages about love and acceptance and unity. Consider them optional. Pretend your brethren don’t even exist.”

Maybe all the power plays and self-advancement that has gone on in the name of Christ finally got to him and he gave us up to our own devices and let us put our own rulers on the throne. Perhaps God just got fed up with us taking natural differences and cultural variety — things that he loves — and turning them into parochialism. So he’s scattered us like the nations from Babel into our own little enclaves.

Maybe the “scattering” of the Church, the schisms, the divisions, the contentions, the wars, the nationalism, the parochialism, the territorialism, the dogmatism and separatism is the result of God abandoning us to our selfish and short-sighted ways."

Mike Bell


letting this sink in for a sec.

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