A Baptist pastor weighs in on the question of when the
church began:
“The church didn’t begin at Pentecost, it began when God called Abram out of Ur of the Chaldees. All who believe are descendants of his promise.
Nothing has stopped his church for over 4000 years and nothing can.”
Reply to this sort of thing in 180 characters? You have to
be kidding. It’s one reason certain social media platforms are inferior places
for Christian discussion. They foster snappy rhetorical flourishes, but
discourage nuanced analysis. That doesn’t make them useless, but it certainly
limits their usefulness.
I suppose one might reply, “It depends how you define ‘church’.”
That may get the attentive reader thinking. Or not. So let’s try something
a little longer-form.