Ten years a deacon in the Lord’s Church. Ten years in holy orders, embracing the Pentecostal tradition that formed me, proclaiming the grace of the Triune God unhindered by my own works. Served by Christ, and serving Him who loved me till the end.
Dave K
@revdavek.bsky.social
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Follower of Jesus. Seanchaí. Husband. “Bear” to my kids. Pentecostal Priest. Higher Ed Research Ethics Pro. “God’s Bulldog”
!["One of the greatest crimes of the late war [WWI] was that of robbing the church of her sacred calling and “pilgrim” role, turning her aside from the saving souls, to plunge her into the vortex of world politics and patriotism, with all its fallen prejudices preferences, avarices, cruelties, hates and murder.
"The Church has no place to flaunt flags of national preference. God’s grace and gospel are international. Christ died for all men. Antichrist means to run the church by government edict. Then we will have state and Church. The State will dictate to the Church. The flags represent fallen nations, with fallen nationalistic, sectional prides, ambitions, etc., that breed strife, enmity, jealousy, and war, for they are without Christ. We do not belong to them.
"Government is squarely up against God in its demands on Christians during war time. And Christians are squarely up against the question whether they shall obey God or man.
Should those in authority forbid the preaching of practicing of the Gospel, which Gospel forbids to the Christian the exercise of war, there is but one thing for him to do. He must obey God."
-Frank Bartleman, Christian Citizenship, (Los Angeles: n.d.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byabejvktmgji5klxj733ois/bafkreigmdkohe5qa5oi3iiasmqcgyhely5xlsadr2q2bxk2g44gkc25jxi)
