God Experienced the Cross Three-fold: A Good Friday Meditation

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April 7, 2023

I love my family. My marriage has been good—thirty-plus years day-by-day with the love of my life; I’ve watched three children grow and run and laugh. Then I try to see myself capable of willingly sacrificing any one of them on behalf of others—and not just “others,” but on behalf of my enemies and those who hate me. I try to imagine what I would feel if my children would suffer at the hands of ignorant and wicked men. Then I try to imagine it was my idea, my request, my plan. With such imagination I realized Jesus did not suffer alone. The Father and the Spirit shared the pain. It’s a Good Friday meditation – at he cross, God suffered three ways.

Every loving parent has experienced this in some measure. Your child falls and scrapes her knee. Your child falls and breaks his arm. More chilling: your child falls ill and dies. You would willingly take their place. Perhaps you have offered God that very deal.

A Good Friday Meditation

As an Easter meditation, consider this: God experienced the cross three-fold. We are familiar with Jesus’ suffering: the agonizing night in the garden where he offered up prayers through loud cries and tears; the betrayal of his closest friends; the shame and humiliation of arrest; the torture of beatings and lashes; and the slow death on a cross.

In each event the Father suffered, too. Put yourself in the Father’s place. Everything Jesus endured, the Father suffered in the way only a loving parent can suffer.

Nor did the Holy Spirit stand by, stoic and detached. The Spirit’s energizing love brings glory to the Son and the Father. In the suffering death of Jesus the Spirit’s life force was held in check while all creation rejected the Creator.

John Mark McMillan: Superman, Lois, and My Good Friday Playlist

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John Mark McMillan

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April 7, 2023

I’m going to share with you my Good Friday playlist, but first I want to set the table for Good Friday.

It’s often puzzled me why anyone would described the day that God died as “good”. Ok, maybe, for my theological purists in the room, let’s say God didn’t exactly die, just his perfect innocent beautiful lamb of a human self expression on earth. Splitting hairs if you ask me, but thanks for keeping us in line. Also, thanks for making it seem even less “good”.

I digress. But even applying the most transactional interpretations of scripture “the day the rent comes due” has never felt like a good one, even if you live on 60 acres by the sea.

So . . . “Good”? I’d like to make an observation.

I’m an avid fan of all types of fiction. And over the years I’ve noticed that its never the strength of a character that endears me to my favorites. Laser eyes, X-ray vision, and flight make Superman exciting, but not interesting. The real reason popular culture has obsessed over him since 1938 isn’t because he’s strong. Nope, it’s because of his one great weakness; Lois Lane.

See, his powers perpetually place the person he loves in jeopardy, and that makes him weak. It also makes him believable, accessible, and even lovable.

Maybe it’s our yellow sun that gives Kal-El his abilities, but Lois is the only reason any of us give a darn about him almost a century after his introduction. She’s his Kryptonite (see what I did there) and she’s always been his only real super power. Because it’s his weakness that gives us access to him. His weakness is the door into his story. Otherwise he’s just a program running in the background as inhuman as the elements themselves and we’re but ants in his arboretum.

Without Lois, Superman is dead on the page. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Discover John Mark’s Good Friday playlist on page two . . .

51 Easter Quotes Every Christian Should Read

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Christine Yount Jones

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April 7, 2023

These 51 Easter quotes will help you stop and reflect on this holy season of Easter. Each Easter quote comes from a meaningful Easter sermon on SermonCentral.com.

51 Easter Quotes Every Christian Should Read

“Jesus could have been satisfied with giving the world bread and water. He could have given them a healing clinic in every town. A leprosarium. School of exorcism. No. He gave himself. Spiritual sacrifice to God. Broke the bond of sin and death and set us free forever. He left for us an empty tomb.” Eldon Reich in Easter: What God Gave to Us

2. “Muhammad died, and was buried. His faithful followers take pilgrimages to visit his remains, the same is true of Buddha and other religious leaders. But it is not true of Jesus. You cannot visit His remains; you can only visit His empty grave, because He isn’t there. He Arose!” James Wilson in Easter: Jesus Arose!

3. “The empty tomb tells us of God’s ultimate power. A power that points to an ultimate purpose. Throughout His suffering, many times Jesus was told to show His power to escape His suffering and His death…but He knew that beyond all demonstrations of power and miracles…it was the ultimate power over death which had to be revealed.” Brad Bailey in Easter: A Tomb Tells All

4. “For the separation of humanity from God is depicted way back in the garden…We have a broken relationship with God, both in the depths of our souls and the actions of our hearts. This is precisely the reason Christ came. “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. He bore our cost.” Brad Bailey in Easter: Rooted in Time and History and Yet Timeless in Its Impact

5. “An event can be thrust upon you and it takes you by surprise; you never would have predicted it in a million years. Now here it is – staring you in the face. What will you do? You can’t stay the same, you can’t pretend it didn’t happen. You may not know what to do, but this much is certain, you have to do something. This is the Resurrection.” Ken Sowers in Easter: Grave Robbers Didn’t Rob the Tomb; God Did!

6. “When it comes to believing in the resurrection of Jesus, we cannot simply seek knowledge; instead, we must seek faith. Nobody comes to faith in Jesus because of knowledge of Him. Even Satan has knowledge of Jesus, only he doesn’t believe in Jesus.” Michael Deutsch in Easter Sermon

7. “If you were to return to the scene of Christ’s execution that Sunday morning, you’d find relics of his death: A braided crown with scarlet tips. Three iron nails covered in dirt and blood. And an empty cross tinged red with the blood of God.” Scott Bayles in Easter: Empty Promises of Easter

8. “Perhaps the message this angel spoke was the most important one in Scripture. The message of the angel is still true today ‘don’t be alarmed – He is risen! He is not here; you will see him again.’ Jesus is alive!” Andy Barnard in Easter Angel

9. “Easter is the focal point of all history–because Jesus Christ is the focal point of all human history. Every time you date a check, print a calendar…every time this unbelieving world puts a date on a newspaper or magazine they are bearing witness to Him. History just cannot get away from Him.” Steve Malone in The Easter Door

10. “These angels are involved in our lives for several reasons, but one of them is to learn about God’s grace by watching us. When you study the Bible or reflect upon the person and work of Christ, you are joining in the curriculum of the angels; you are on holy ground.” Ed Vasicek in Easter Angels

Resurrection Songs to Sing Together on Easter

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Bob Kauflin

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April 7, 2023

One reader wrote in to ask me, “I enjoyed your blog on ‘What Christmas Songs Do You Use?’ Could you please post a similar list of resurrection songs for Easter?”

I polled some of the other guys who serve in some of the Sovereign Grace churches, and this is a tentative list. I’ve left off some of the more obvious ones like “Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today.” I’ve included songs that focus exclusively on the resurrection, as well as those that reference it at some point.

Crown Him With Many Crowns
Including the verse:
Crown Him the Lord of life who triumphed o’er the grave
And rose victorious in the strife for those He came to save.
His glories now we sing who died and rose on high,
Who died eternal live to bring and lives that death may die.

See What a Morning
From the Church of Christ the King CD Passion for God’s Son.

Worship Christ the Risen King
Words by Jack Hayford, sung to the melody of Angels From the Realms of Glory (#286 in the Trinity Hymnal)
A sample verse:
Rise, O church, and lift your voices, Christ has conquered death and hell.
Sing as all the earth rejoices; resurrection anthems swell.
Come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the risen King!

In Christ Alone
by Stuart Townend and Keith Getty
There in the ground His body lay, Light of the World by darkness slain.
Then bursting forth in glorious day, up from the grave He rose again.
And as He stands in victory, sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine, bought with the precious blood of Christ.

Beautiful Savior (All My Days)
By Stuart Townend
The chorus includes these words:
You’re the risen One, heaven’s champion,
And You reign, You reign over all.

Lost in Wonder
By Martin Layzell from the CD of the same name
Up from the grave victorious,
You rose again so glorious.

You Led Me to the Cross
By Matt Redman
The second verse focuses on the resurrection.

You Are My King
By Billy Foote

Allergy Friendly Treats: Offer KidMin Snacks That All Children Can Enjoy

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April 6, 2023

Allergy friendly treats are vital for children’s ministry classrooms and events. Use these online resources when gathering snacks to serve kids at church.

Children attending kidmin classes and events usually anticipate snacks or treats. But about 5.6 million U.S. children have food allergies. That means 1 in 13 kids who attend your events can’t munch on a Milky Way or sneak a Snickers.

In the Bible, Jesus tells a parable about a lost sheep. In addition to valuing the multitude, the Good Shepherd values one little lost lamb (Matthew 18:12-13).

As children’s ministry leaders, let’s follow our Good Shepherd’s lead. Even when it comes to snacks. Children’s special circumstances don’t surprise or inconvenience their heavenly Father. If food is an instrument to share God’s love, let’s offer options that all kids can enjoy.

According to the FDA, eight foods cause the most common food allergies. These include milk, soy, eggs, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish. You probably won’t serve up seafood. However, you may wonder which snacks or candies are safe.

Lists of Allergy Friendly Treats & Snacks

Help is here! We found organizations that specialize in food allergy advocacy. They’ve researched and compiled lists of tasty treats for all kids. These three sites have especially helpful guidance.

1. Spokin

The mission of this website and app is to “make managing food allergies and Celiac easier.” It offers suggestions for safe foods, restaurants, bakeries, travel, and recipes. A visual Halloween guide categorizes candy by specific types of allergies.

2. Kids With Food Allergies

According to its website, “Kids With Food Allergies is a division of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), the nation’s oldest and leading asthma and allergy not-for-profit organization.” Check out the downloadable Allergy Friendly Halloween Candy Guide.

3. Allergic Living

According to their website, “Allergic Living informs, engages and assists readers living with food allergies, and environmental allergies and asthma. Our mission is to be the authoritative and trustworthy source of news and information for the allergy community.” They also provide an Allergy Friendly Treats list.

Allergy Friendly Treats: 4 Delicious Takeaways

Now that you’ve digested this information, remember these tasty takeaways:

1. No special ordering needed!

Most treats on these lists are available at grocery stores.

2. Allergy friendly treats are still delicious.

Depending on a child’s specific allergy, kid-favorites like Sour Patch Kids, Twizzlers, and Hershey Kisses are delicious, doable options. Children won’t even miss the peanuts!

Critics Slam Student-Led Evangelistic Event Featuring Chance the Rapper; Nick Hall Defends Decision

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Jesse T. Jackson

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April 6, 2023

Chance the Rapper — Screengrab via Instagram @nickhallpulse

“Fill The Stadium” (FTS), an evangelistic event created by college students for college students, has come under criticism for featuring secular rapper Chance the Rapper.

“The event will be a turning point for culture at the collegiate level and a catalyst of positive changes in OKC and beyond,” the FTS website reads. The event is scheduled to take place at the University of Oklahoma on April 29.

Chance the Rapper, whose birth name is Chancelor Johnathan Bennett, is a three-time Grammy Award-winner. He has also been vocal about his faith in some of his songs, including “How Great” and “Blessings.”

Chance the Rapper has said that his grandmother raised him in the Christian faith, but that his relationship with Jesus didn’t become real to him until 2015 when his daughter Kensli was born with a heart condition that kept her in the NICU for over a week.

In 2016, Chance tweeted, “Today’s the last day my old life, last day smoking cigs. Headed to church for help. All things are possible thru Christ who strengthens me.” He has also frequently attended Kanye West’s Sunday Service.

Despite his faith, Chance’s songs often include explicit language and adult themes.

Chance the Rapper will be joined at the “Fill The Stadium” event by a lineup including Kari Jobe, Maverick City Music’s Chandler Moore, and evangelist Nick Hall.

Critics jumped on Hall after he announced that Chance the Rapper would be performing at a “student led, gospel driven” event, with some urging Hall to reconsider using the secular rapper.

“Chance the Rapper is a struggling Christian at best. Please don’t use him just to draw a crowd! Not fair to him and sets an unbiblical example,” one of Hall’s Instagram followers wrote. Another asked, “Chance??? Please explain how this is gospel driven?”

Hall shared with ChurchLeaders that for 19 years he has tried to get major secular artists to take part in outreach events. However, “the truth is, most secular artists won’t, even if their fans know about their faith. Because they’re surrounded in an industry that if they’re too public about their faith, it’s a huge risk for their sponsorships or potential job opportunities.”

“In the world we live in, the louder you are about your faith, the more you’re gonna get attacked,” Hall said. “And unfortunately, it’s attacks on both sides—that is what’s happening right now with Chance doing this event.”

“You know, it’s like he’s doing an event that’s a public event about Jesus, a public event with an evangelist, and so that’s not popular for a lot of people who are more mainstream. And then, simultaneously, you’ve got Christians that are mad, because, you know, he’s not perfect,” Hall explained.

This event is the result of a dream among some students at the University of Oklahoma to fill the school’s stadium for an evangelistic event, Hall shared. “Their hearts are seeing their friends come to Jesus.”

Hall said that “everybody tried to talk them out of trying to book the stadium, because the stadium has never been booked for a student-led event before.” In fact, the stadium has only booked two other non-athletic events in the last 50 years. One of those was a U2 concert.

‘Horrific and Repeated’—Over 600 Children Were Sexually Abused by 156 Church Leaders in Maryland, Says New Report

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Jessica Mouser

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April 6, 2023

archdiocese of baltimore — Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Maryland. Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

[Editor’s note: This article contains information about sexual abuse that some readers may find disturbing and/or triggering.]

One hundred fifty-six Catholic church leaders sexually abused more than 600 children over a period of 80 years within the Archdiocese of Baltimore, according to a redacted, 456-page report released Wednesday by Maryland State Attorney General (AG) Anthony Brown. The incriminating report reveals a “long and sordid history” of abuse and abuse cover-ups within the archdiocese.

“The incontrovertible history uncovered by this investigation is one of pervasive and persistent abuse by priests and other Archdiocese personnel,” says the report. “It is also a history of repeated dismissal or cover up of that abuse by the Catholic Church hierarchy. While every victim’s story is unique, together they reveal themes and behaviors typical of adults who sexually abuse children, and of those who enable abuse by concealing it. What was consistent throughout was the absolute authority and power these abusive priests and church leadership held over victims, their families, and their communities.”

The report notes that the number of victims is “likely far higher,” citing a study that found “only 11.9% of women who were raped before the age of 18 reported it to the police or any other authority and were less likely to report if the rapist was known to them.”

Archdiocese of Baltimore Actively Concealed Abuse

The Archdiocese of Baltimore, which includes nine counties within the state of Maryland, but does not cover the entire state, was the first diocese the Catholic Church established in the United States. Furthermore, it has had “a special prominence” within the Catholic church in the U.S., says the report.

Prior to Maryland AG’s investigation, a 2018 grand jury report found that more than 300 priests abused more than 1,000 children from the 1940s through the early 2000s in six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. The grand jury’s shocking findings prompted investigations in other states, including Illinois and Nebraska. Soon after the Pennsylvania report was released, Maryland’s then-Attorney General Brian Frosh launched the investigation that has led to the present findings.

“In 2018, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General launched a Grand Jury investigation into the Archdiocese of Baltimore, examining criminal allegations of child sexual abuse by clergy, seminarians, deacons, and employees of the Archdiocese,” says the report. “The Office of the Attorney General also set out to investigate efforts by the leadership of the Catholic Church to hide sexual abuse.”

The results of this investigation, which examined “hundreds of thousands of documents dating back to the 1940s,” are upsetting. The report states:

As the case descriptions in this Report make clear, from the 1940s through 2002, over a hundred priests and other Archdiocese personnel engaged in horrific and repeated abuse of the most vulnerable children in their communities while Archdiocese leadership looked the other way. Time and again, members of the Church’s hierarchy resolutely refused to acknowledge allegations of child sexual abuse for as long as possible. When denial became impossible, Church leadership would remove abusers from the parish or school, sometimes with promises that they would have no further contact with children. Church documents reveal with disturbing clarity that the Archdiocese was more concerned with avoiding scandal and negative publicity than it was with protecting children.

Greg Laurie Recalls Details of His ‘Groovy’ Marriage That ‘Jesus Revolution’ Left Out

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Stephanie Martin

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April 6, 2023

As depicted in the movie “Jesus Revolution,” longtime California pastor Greg Laurie came to Christ during the Jesus Movement of the late ’60s and early ’70s. The biopic also features some of his love story with Cathe, his wife of almost 50 years.

In an April 5 tweet, Laurie, senior pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship, wrote: “You’ve seen part of mine and Cathe’s story in @JesusRevMovie. Here, I let you in on everything left out of it!” He then directed readers to a blog post about the couple’s “hippie love story.”

Greg Laurie: Prioritizing Christ Solidified Our Relationship

The well-received “Jesus Revolution,” based on Greg Laurie’s book by the same title, portrays how Greg and Cathe met and how they each became Christians. After a difficult childhood, Greg came to faith as a teenager and then began leading Bible studies. Cathe was from a well-to-do family, but as a rebellious teen she embraced the counterculture, including using drugs and hitchhiking to “love-ins.”

After accepting Jesus at a Christian rock concert, Cathe started attending Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, then pastored by Chuck Smith. She and Greg began a relationship that he admits featured lots of drama and arguments at the beginning. “Perhaps the only thing we had in common back then, other than our mutual love for God, was our strong-willed personalities,” he wrote.

Laurie believes their relationship solidified and survived because Cathe was “on an unconscious search for someone who was…sure of his convictions.” Instead of being wishy-washy like her previous boyfriends, Greg was candid and clear about Jesus being his top priority. “My clarity about putting Jesus first made her feel secure,” Laurie added about Cathe, whom he married in February 1974.

In “Jesus Revolution,” actors Joel Courtney and Anna Grace Barlow portray the young Greg and Cathe. “They were especially effective in depicting the debates Cathe and I had, as we do to this very day,” wrote Greg Laurie. “I believe this love story will resonate with young people today because it is honest and real.”

Almost 50 years later, Laurie noted, “Our union remains an ongoing adventure, charted only by our enduring and deepened mutual love and respect.” About his marriage, he added, “God remains the center of it all… How groovy is that?”

Cathe Laurie: Marriage Requires Repentance, Daily Surrender

Speaking to The Christian Post in February, when “Jesus Revolution” released in theaters nationwide, Cathe Laurie admitted she was “a little terrified” to have her life and family portrayed on the big screen. She’s willing to let God use her, she said, but “at the same time, it is very personal.”

‘You Are Worthy of God’s Calling’ — Advocacy Group Pens Letter to SBC Women Under Fire for Serving as Pastors

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Dale Chamberlain

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April 6, 2023

As debate about the role of women in Southern Baptist churches continues to swirl, Baptist Women in Ministry, an advocacy group with historic ties to the denomination, has released an open letter of support to Baptist women in ministry leadership—particularly those who were recently put on a public list as being out of step with the SBC.

According to its website, Baptist Women in Ministry was originally called Women in Ministry, Southern Baptist Convention, and arose out of cooperative events with the SBC in the 1970s focused on the role of women in church leadership.

The first of those events, called “Christian Liberation for Women,” was held in 1974 and was sponsored by the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (then called the Christian Life Commission).

However, as the “conservative resurgence” transformed the denomination in the 1980s, the group’s relationship with the SBC naturally changed. From its start, Baptist Women in Ministry had been formed “outside the official structures of the denomination,” and the prevailing beliefs within the SBC became increasingly adversarial to its own.

In more recent times, some Southern Baptists wish to carry the vision of conservative complementarian theology further by disfellowshipping any church that grants any woman on their staff the title of pastor.

The dispute has largely centered on Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, which, despite being the denomination’s largest congregation, was recently disfellowshipped pending appeal for awarding multiple women on their staff the title of pastor, one of whom preaches during weekend services on a regular basis.

The bombshell decision has ramped up debate about whether so-called “soft” complementarianism, wherein women can hold pastoral positions but not serve as elders, is within the range of acceptable Southern Baptist beliefs, as well as whether fellowship in the historically non-confessional denomination requires strict adherence to the Baptist Faith & Message 2000, the denomination’s unifying statement of beliefs.

The conversation intensified when Mike Law, an SBC pastor in Arlington, Virginia, compiled an extensive list of churches affiliated with the SBC who have women on their staff in the role of pastor.

Last year, Law also sent an open letter to the SBC’s Executive Committee, urging them to amend the denomination’s constitution to exclude churches with women serving as pastors. That letter accumulated over 2,000 signatures.

Now, the Baptist Women in Ministry organization has released an open letter of their own for the benefit of women in Baptist church leadership, particularly those “who were targeted by a recent public list of women serving as pastors in Baptist churches.”

Rare Medieval Easter Cipher Is up for Grabs This Holy Week

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Kathryn Post

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April 6, 2023

Easter Cipher — A rare 15th-century manuscript is for sale. The manuscript contains a cipher that, when decoded, helped calculate the date of Easter during that period. Photo courtesy of The Raab Collection

(RNS) — Sans apps and online calendars, tracking Easter is no simple task.

Unlike many fixed annual holidays, Easter — which falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox — can be anytime between March 22 and April 25 or, for Orthodox Christians who use the Julian calendar, between April 4 and May 8. In the Middle Ages, an entire science called “computus” was developed to pin down Easter’s highly variable date.

On Monday, The Raab Collection, an antiquities dealer in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, put up for sale a rare 15^th-century manuscript containing a cipher that, when decoded, helped calculate the date of Easter during that period.

“Finding something with such a clear connection to our modern lives, finding this rare, direct connection via this computus text, is not something one sees every day on the market,” Nathan Raab, principal at The Raab Collection and author of “The Hunt for History,” told Religion News Service.

The medieval manuscript, which The Raab Collection is selling for $16,500, contains 25 double sided folios, or pages, handwritten in Latin, illustrated in pink and blue and illuminated in gold. Based on the text, coloring and decorative elements, experts believe it originated in or around Belgium, according to Raab.

The Raab Collection believes the pages are part of a larger liturgical book, called a breviary, that was commissioned by a clergyman in the early 15th century. Katie Bugyis, a faculty fellow of the Medieval Institute at Indiana’s University of Notre Dame, told RNS breviaries were used by clerics and members of monastic communities for the performance of the Divine Office, a set of prayers that occur at set times each day.

“Just as it was important for monks and nuns, it was also important for clerics to maintain their own sort of private devotions,” said Bugyis. “And they did that by observing the hours. A breviary would have supplied all of the chants, prayers and readings that he would have needed to observe those hours of prayer.”

This manuscript also includes, in full or in part, the Litany of the Saints, Psalms 132 and 118 and at least one hymn.

According to Bugyis, during this period Easter would have been the pinnacle of the liturgical year and perhaps one of the few times when parishioners attended Mass and received the Eucharist. Knowing the date of Easter was critical not only because of the holiday’s significance, but also because, as Máirín MacCarron, a lecturer at the University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, told RNS, “it affects about one-third of the liturgical year.” Ash Wednesday, Lent and Pentecost, for instance, all revolve around Easter.

“That’s why having a computus text like the one that we find in the breviary is so important,” observed Bugyis. “It was really complicated, trying to figure out the lunar cycle in any given year, and when the moon is waxing and waning.”

In this manuscript, the cipher takes the form of a mnemonic poem, an accompanying alphabet and a description of the calculation process.

The 5 Words That Should Scare Any Pastor

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Mike Leake

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April 6, 2023

I'm here because of you — Adobestock #86188748

I heard these words a few times as a youth pastor when I was just cutting my teeth in ministry, and I absolutely relished them. It was confirmation to my heart and my soul that I was doing what God had called me to do. I’ve heard these words now as a senior pastor and they aren’t nearly as appetizing—they are frightening.

What are these five words?

“I’m here because of you.”

Those words once fed my ego—or maybe just my insecurity. I could look around and congratulate myself that a handful of people were there because of the way that God was using me in preaching, relating or just because of my vision for doing things. I’d be lying if I said that a good part of my excitement wasn’t just fleshly pride.

But now…those words terrify me.

Why the words “I’m here because of you” terrify me:

First, those words terrify me because I know if you are here because of me you’ll likely also leave because of me. I’m not sufficient. I’m not competent enough or holy enough to captivate affections or attentions. I’m going to preach terrible sermons. I’m going to step on toes. I’m going to sin against you. I’m going to let you down. And if you are here because of me when those things happen—and they will—you’ll be tempted to leave and find someone else who will also let you down. This terrifies me because I know up front who I am and I know that I cannot live up to those expectations.
Secondly, those words terrify because I’m not Jesus and I don’t need the temptation to think that I am. Oh, there is something so carnal and prideful within me. Abominable thoughts that I’ve got what it takes to grow a church, to keep people, to disciple people. Foolishness. I’m not able to save a single soul. I cannot captive the heart of anyone (nor would I want to). But when I hear words like those dastardly five, I’ve got a battle to fight.
Third, I’m a person and not an asset. It does something to my soul when this truth is forgotten. I need people not just to lead people. I need the vital companionship of the local church just as much as you do. But whenever I’m viewed as an asset (or liability) I’m robbed of a bit of my humanity. My family and I aren’t performers. We’re people. Broken people being redeemed—oh, it feels so slowly redeemed—by Jesus.

Human Error: the Security Trick That Breached LastPass

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Jonathan Smith

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April 6, 2023

I’ve been asked a lot of questions about password managers, especially due to the LastPass hack that started in 2022 and was fully disclosed in 2023. Before getting too far into this, let me be clear that I’m still pro password manager. Password managers, while not spelled out in the original Greek, are most certainly part of “the way, the truth, and the life” in John 14:6. LastPass was not compromised because they had poorly written code or because their product was inferior. LastPass was compromised because a software engineer fell for a security trick that tricked him into giving access to his personal computer to a bad actor. The software engineer used his personal computer to access sensitive LastPass data as it was part of his job. Once the bad actors had access to the computer, they were able to steal encrypted backups of LastPass user’s password vaults.

Human Error: the Security Trick That Breached LastPass

While there are a lot of things the LastPass employee should have done differently, it is important to note that LastPass was not breached because a hacker was able to get in through their defenses or bad code. The data breach happened due to human error.

Incidents like this are one reason some are against cloud-based password managers. However, it is important to recognize that human error is everywhere, in cloud-based systems and in non-cloud-based options. Whether your password data is stored in the cloud, or in an encrypted file that only exists on your local computer, human error can make both equally vulnerable due to a security trick. Regardless of which password manager option you choose, it is important that you choose one.

Former OnlyFans Star Blac Chyna Shows Off Bible College Degree

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Jesse T. Jackson

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April 5, 2023

blac_chyna_degree — Screengrab via Instagram @blacchyna

Angela Renee White, better known to most as Blac Chyna, posted on Instagram this week showing off her recently earned Doctorate of Liberal Arts from Sacramento Theological Seminary and Bible College.

White shared that she received her doctorate on January 17, 2023. She snapped a photo of her diploma alongside a picture of her two children, 10-year-old King Cairo and 6-year-old Dream.

The socialite’s announcement comes less than two weeks after she told fans that she stopped performing and sharing pornographic material on her OnlyFans account because of her newfound faith in Jesus.

“I was reborn on my birthday 5-11-22 🙏🏽 God is Good 🙌🏽,” White posted on Instagram on March 23 alongside an image of her baptism.

The former stripper said next to a photo of her getting baptized that she was trusting God moving forward.

“I’m not doing OnlyFans anymore. I’m kind of past that. It is one of those things where I did what I needed to do at that moment because of the circumstances I was in,” White said. “Besides, with me being baptized, that’s just not what God will want me to do. It’s kind of degrading.”

White informed her fanbase that if they don’t like her decision to stop performing for pornography, there is nothing she can do about it, adding, “But I will tell you this: there is a God.”

White told Fox & Friends Weekend hosts that the Holy Spirit is what led her dramatic change.

“Honestly, for me, I was like, this is too much. It’s time for a change,” White said. “This is not really who I am. Something just came over me, like the Holy Spirit came over me. And I was like, You know what? I need to figure out about what’s my purpose in life? Like, why am I here?”

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Franklin Graham Praises Marjorie Taylor Greene — ‘It Will Be Interesting To See How God Uses Her’

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Janna Firestone

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April 5, 2023

Franklin Graham Marjorie Taylor Greene — Left: Council.gov.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Right: U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

After watching Lesley Stahl’s interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene on “60 Minutes,” evangelist Franklin Graham recently tweeted his support for Greene.

Having spent just two years as the Georgia Republican representative, Greene has quickly gained considerable political notoriety with her controversial and outspoken views. She’s been criticized for her claims on social media that the Parkland and Sandy Hook school shootings were faked, for advancing QAnon conspiracy theories, for cheering the January 6th insurrection, and for making racially charged statements.

Son of the late Billy Graham, Franklin Graham serves as president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and of Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian relief organization. With nearly three million followers, Graham’s vocal advocacy for the Republican party reaches around the world.

Franklin Graham Supports Marjorie Taylor Greene as She Brings ‘Some Practical, Common Sense to Politics’

Graham admits not knowing Greene, but that didn’t stop him from supporting her and what she stands for politically. Though a registered Independent, Graham has often been a public supporter of the Republican party.

In a recent tweet regarding Greene’s interview on “60 Minutes,” Graham said, “It will be interesting to see how God uses her.”

“I learned a lot,” Graham said of the interview. “I think she brings some practical, common sense to politics.”

I was watching @60Minutes Sunday night & saw @LesleyRStahl’s interview with @RepMTG. I learned a lot. I don’t know her, but I think she brings some practical, common sense to politics. You might want to take a minute to check it out. It will be interesting to see how God uses…

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) April 4, 2023

With more than 600,000 views and hundreds of quotes tweets, Graham’s viral tweet is eliciting polarized comments.

One commented, “This sort of comment undermines your organization’s good name and works.”

Another supported Graham, saying, “Thank you, Reverend Graham for standing up for truth and for God. Ignore all the Negative comments. We know too many people are walking in darkness.”

“Franklin, I began to follow Jesus 48 years ago and have done so ever since. My old life became new then,” Someone else said. “I fear for you and some of your political allegiances. You use the right language. But Jesus seems to be absent.”

One commenter watched the interview and then commented, “I did see it and was positively impressed with MTG, she doesn’t cower an inch.”

An Interview With Marjorie Taylor Greene — A ‘Dangerous Politician to Some, a Hero to Others’

Lesley Stahl interviewed Marjorie Taylor Greene on “60 Minutes.” In just 13 minutes, the two discussed history, politics, and Greene’s radical opinions.

Before her term in Congress began, Greene helped lead her family’s construction business in Georgia. Her father, a conservative, often listened to right-wing talk radio. When asked what her dad thought of her political career and “pitbullness,” Greene responded, “He was very proud of me.” Greene’s mother, on the other hand, has told her to “tone it down.”

Amid Pressure, SBC Abuse Reform Task Force May Step Back From Using Guidepost Solutions

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Stephanie Martin

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April 5, 2023

ARITF Guidepost Solutions — A cross and Bible sculpture stand outside the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Holly Meyer)

After months of criticism and pressure, the Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has indicated it may back away from partnering with Guidepost Solutions. In an April 4 update, the ARITF did not mention Guidepost by name but said task force members recently voted to “consider alternative pathways” in a “spirit of unity and cooperation.”

That move comes shortly after Florida Baptists passed a resolution saying they would withhold part of their Cooperative Program giving unless the SBC cut ties with Guidepost. Other SBC churches and pastors also have spoken out, and the ARITF indicated it has “engaged in numerous and extensive conversations with local, state, and national leaders across our Convention to address concerns.”

Task Force Will Seek Partner(s) That ‘Share Our Values’

Faith-Based Solutions, a subsidiary of Guidepost, was selected to build a Ministry Check database of SBC church leaders credibly accused of sexual abuse. But in light of the fact that Guidepost, a secular company, tweeted support for the LGBTQ community last June, calls have arisen for the task force to seek assistance elsewhere.

According to the ARITF statement, task force members met on March 27 and decided to consider “dividing the work among smaller firms which share our values…[and] meet our qualifications for the highest professional standards.”

In its update, the ARITF expressed gratitude to church leaders and abuse survivors for patience while members have worked “toward a unifying solution.” The task force also reaffirmed its “unwavering commitment to the SBC messengers’ mandate to establish a reliable and trustworthy Ministry Check website and to advance true and effective abuse reform across our Convention.”

An addendum to the ARITF update encouraged Southern Baptists to maintain the “current process” for the denomination’s Sexual Abuse Hotline. “Hundreds of unique submissions” of a “sensitive and confidential nature” have already been logged, according to the statement. And if the hotline were to switch to another provider “at this critical time, the SBC would forfeit the trust of survivors and hinder our efforts to make our churches the safest place to encounter the gospel.”

Did the Task Force Cave to Critics?

Reaction to the task force pivot has mostly been along ideological lines. Some conservatives, who say the problem of sexual abuse within the SBC has been overstated, continue to express concerns about possible false accusations. On April 5, former SBC Executive Committee member Rod Martin tweeted a screenshot of an AI response to the debate, captioning it “Even WokeGPT thinks what the Task Force is doing is fatally flawed.”

Others contend that the task force is giving in. In an article at BaptistNews.com, Mark Wingfield wrote that “anti-gay critics…appear to have won their campaign” by beating “the drum of opposition.”

Chris Davis, an SBC pastor in Virginia, called the ultimatum from Florida Baptists “misplaced outrage.” On April 4, he tweeted: “As one of many young men who experienced the sexual predation of Paul Pressler I find it disingenuous that many of the same Florida Baptist leaders who still speak approvingly of Pressler want to cut ties with Guidepost because of their LGBT support.”

‘Our Hearts Are Grieving’ — Pastor Killed in Head-On Collision While on His Way To Preach

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Jesse T. Jackson

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April 5, 2023

On the morning of Sunday, April 2, Michigan pastor and missionary Dean Elliott was killed while on his way to preach at Manistee Assembly of God after his vehicle was struck by a driver who was going the wrong way on US-131 in metro Grand Rapids.

The 63-year-old Elliott had worked with several local churches and had a passion for ministering to pastors in India alongside his wife Brenda through their ministry called Abounding Hope. The couple started the ministry in 2003 after serving over 28 years in pastoral and evangelistic ministry.

Manistee Assembly of God’s former pastor, Patrick Pointer, who had to step down in January due to medical issues, said that his “heart weighs in a heavy broken state.”

“My heart is broken at the losses involved,” Pointer continued. “Yesterday, marked the ‘Triumphal Entry’ of Jesus into the city of Jerusalem during this Easter season…Dean celebrated his own triumphal entry into Heaven and the arms of Jesus!”

State police believe that alcohol may partly explain why the 30-year-old driver, who was critically injured, was going the wrong way.

Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) released a statement explaining how they have implemented measures to prevent drivers from entering the roadways going the wrong direction.

“We’ve installed additional wrong way signage, adjusted the height of wrong way signs, added reflective delineators, and installed wrong-way detection systems,” the statement said. “All interchanges are peppered with large red and white signs that say WRONG WAY DO NOT ENTER. The only common factor with these types of crashes is that the driver has been impaired in some way.”

Numerous Facebook posts remembering Elliott have shared how the pastor was “a world changer” for Christ.

Elliott was described as a “generous man and a sincere person” by his friend, missionary and Massachusetts pastor David Stewart Jr.

Fennville Assembly of God Church, where Elliott once pastored, posted on Facebook, “Our hearts are grieving the sudden loss of our former Pastor Dean Elliott, who was killed in a car accident this morning while on his way to a preaching assignment. Please pray for his wife Brenda and their children, Nathan and Lauren. We are grateful for your commitment to Jesus and spreading the Good News.”

Elliott leaves behind a wife and two adult children.

Christian Leaders Respond to Trump Indictment With Prayer, Criticism, Confusion

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Dale Chamberlain

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April 5, 2023

Donald Trump Indictment — Former President Donald Trump is escorted to a courtroom, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. Trump is set to appear in a New York City courtroom on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush money investigation, the first president ever to be charged with a crime. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

On Tuesday, April 5, former president Donald Trump entered the Manhattan District Attorney’s office to plead not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, making him the first former president in United States history to be placed under arrest and charged with a crime.

As Christian leaders continue to react to this historic news, responses from Trump supporters have been impassioned, with some, including congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, going as far as to compare Trump’s indictment to the arrest and crucifixion of Christ. Others have rallied to pray for the president.

While some have celebrated the legal action taken against Trump by the Manhattan DA, a number of leaders, even some who have been vocally critical of the former president, have questions about whether the case against Trump will stand up in a court of law.

The charges stem from payments made by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 in exchange for her silence regarding an extramarital affair between her and Trump. What criminal prosecutors will seek to establish is that Trump made these payments in an effort to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

While news of Trump’s indictment broke last week, it was not until his arraignment that the specific charges were made public.

Nevertheless, even with the indictment unsealed, many Christian leaders without legal expertise, regardless of their feelings about Trump, were left scratching their heads about what exactly the former president is being accused of and why it warrants 34 felony charges.

It is this question that New York Times columnist David French, who is a legal expert, sought to explicate in a recent article, characterizing the case against Trump as anything but “straightforward.”

Prior to Trump’s indictment, French had argued that “an indictment wouldn’t be frivolous, but it would be unwise” due to the “untested legal theory” that has been leveraged to up Trump’s alleged criminal offenses from misdemeanors to felony charges. Having now seen the charges, he stands by that argument.

French went on to explain that while there is abundant evidence that “Trump entered into a scheme to pay off people who could have embarrassed him in the last days of the 2016 campaign…not everything that’s sleazy is illegal.”

Trump’s actions were “clearly immoral and would be extremely embarrassing to anyone who has shown signs that he is capable of embarrassment,” French argued. “But whether it was unlawful is the key question that will decide Trump’s legal fate.”

Many Republicans, including Trump himself, have argued that the charges are nothing more than political persecution aimed at keeping him from securing a second presidential term in the 2024 election.

Following the arraignment, Trump returned to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, holding a press conference later that evening.

With Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” playing over the speakers, a visibly beleaguered Trump moved through the room, shaking hands and waving at supporters before taking to the podium to air his grievances.

“The only crime I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” Trump said, going on to refer to the multiple investigations into his actions and his two impeachment trials as “hoaxes.”

Matthew Stephen Brown: How the Enneagram Helps Church Leaders With Their Blind Spots

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Jessica Mouser

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April 5, 2023

The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast · Matthew Stephen Brown: How the Enneagram Helps Church Leaders With Their Blind Spots

Matthew Stephen Brown is the founding and lead pastor of Sandals Church in Riverside, California. Sandals Church began in 1997 when Matt and his wife, Tammy, set out to create a church where people could be real with themselves, God, and others, and it has since grown to reach more than 12,000 people each weekend. Matthew’s debut book is “A Book Called You: Understanding the Enneagram from a Grace-Filled, Biblical Perspective.”

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Key Questions for Matthew Stephen Brown

-Tell us a little about the background of the Enneagram.

-Could you explain the terminology of the Enneagram?

-How does the Enneagram reveal some truths about God and ourselves?

-How can church leaders use the Enneagram effectively in their ministries?

Key Quotes From Matthew Stephen Brown

“We all have blind spots…the greater the gift of leadership, what I’ve noticed is, the greater the gap in terms of blind spots for leaders. And this is why we see leaders fail all the time.”

“The four on the Enneagram is King Saul, and a lot of fours don’t think they could be a leader. And that’s why I point that out, because God picked a four, a unique person to be the first king of Israel, which I think is profound.”

“[The Enneagram] literally transformed my life, transformed our church, changed us.”

“I come from the theological persuasion that all truth is God’s truth. And so I don’t think the devil’s strategy is to lead us into truth. I think the last thing he wants is for us to be is real with ourselves, God and others.”

“The Enneagram…says, ‘This is why you do what you do.’ It gets at the heart of motivation.

Terrorists Kill Nine Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria

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April 5, 2023

Terrorists-Kill-Nine-Christians-in-Plateau-State — A woman prays during a service at the First African Church Mission in Lagos, Nigeria Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. People were still voting across Nigeria Sunday morning, the day after Africa's most populous nation was supposed to have completed elections, as logistical and security challenges caused widespread delays. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed a pastor and his two sons last month in Plateau state, Nigeria, and six other Christians were slain in the state in other attacks.

Herdsmen and other terrorists at about 11 p.m. on March 26 broke into the North Jos home of a family belonging to the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), killed Micah Gochin and kidnapped his son, the slain Christian’s daughter said.

“My family home was invaded and attacked by armed men we believe are terrorists and herdsmen,” Beyitmwa Gochin told Morning Star News, saying the loss was “devastating.”

West of Jos, in Riyom County, Fulani herdsmen on March 5 killed COCIN Pastor Musa Hyok and his two sons at midnight in their home in Ganawuri town, said resident Swachet Titus.

“A sad incident occurred here at Ganawuri on Sunday, 5 March, as our pastor, the Rev. Musa Hyok, and his two sons, Emmanuel Musa and Mang Musa, were killed by Fulani herdsmen and terrorists,” she said in a text message to Morning Star News. “They were attacked at midnight in their house within the premises of the COCIN church.”

In Kanke County’s Kabwir town, Hannatu Bawa was kidnapped from her home on Feb. 21, an area resident said.

“A Christian woman, Hannatu Bawa, was abducted at about 3 a.m.,” Julius Godiya said in a text message to Morning Star News.

Fulani herdsmen attacked two predominantly Christian communities in Bokkos County, Maiyanga and Nabel villages, at about the same time, 10 p.m., on Feb. 5, killing five Christians and wounding two others with gunshot, an area resident said.

“The two injured victims are currently receiving treatment in a hospital,” Marshall Sule said in a text message.

Alfred Alabo, spokesman for the Plateau State Police Command, said in a press statement that officers were investigating the attacks. A spokesman for the Nigerian Army in Jos, Capt. Oya James, said, “We are on their trail to get the bandits arrested and prosecuted.”

Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014, according to Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) report. It also led the world in Christians abducted (4,726), sexually assaulted or harassed, forcibly married or physically or mentally abused, and it had the most homes and businesses attacked for faith-based reasons. As in the previous year, Nigeria had the second most church attacks and internally displaced people.

In the 2023 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria jumped to sixth place, its highest ranking ever, from No. 7 the previous year.

“Militants from the Fulani, Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and others conduct raids on Christian communities, killing, maiming, raping and kidnapping for ransom or sexual slavery,” the WWL report noted. “This year has also seen this violence spill over into the Christian-majority south of the nation… Nigeria’s government continues to deny this is religious persecution, so violations of Christians’ rights are carried out with impunity.”

Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a recent report.

“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.

Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.

This article originally appeared here.

This North Carolina Church Used to Be Multiracial. Then Came Jan. 6.

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Yonat Shimron

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April 5, 2023

This-North-Carolina-church-used-to-be-multiracial.-Then-came-Jan.-6. — Musicians perform during a Palm Sunday service at Chapel Hill Bible Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 2, 2023. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (RNS) — Sandy Wong still cries when she tells the story.

A few years ago, she registered to attend a women’s retreat at her church, Chapel Hill Bible Church, where she had worshipped for close to 20 years. A Taiwanese immigrant and a mother of three adult children, she often volunteered to help care for children during services and other events. “I love kids,” she said. “They make me happy.”

But on the day of the retreat, the mostly white attendees asked if she would look after their children instead of participating in the gathering.

It wasn’t the first such humiliation for Wong, who often felt as if her race prompted fellow church members to think of her as the “help.” She was so distressed, she moved temporarily to Rockville, Maryland, where she and her husband, Tin-Lup Wong, own a townhouse. In December she moved back, and in early March the couple penned a letter of resignation to the congregation.

”Now we realize what we experienced was racial discrimination,” the Wongs wrote.

The Wongs are among as many as 200 people who have left Chapel Hill Bible Church in recent months — more than 20% of this once flourishing nondenominational congregation in the university town. Several have shared stories similar to the Wongs’.

Sandy and Tin-Lup Wong resigned from Chapel Hill Bible Church in March, saying the church racially discriminated against them. They are pictured in their Chapel Hill home on March 14, 2023. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron.

They say church leadership over the past several years has turned inward, drawing boundaries around orthodox beliefs and dismissing or demeaning members’ concerns. That has led to the departures of many families of all races who complained of the church leadership’s lack of transparency and care.

But the loss of nonwhite members has been especially pronounced, especially since white evangelical Christian congregations have made efforts in recent years to repent of the sin of racism and court a younger, more multiracial generation. A 2020 study found that the proportion of evangelical congregations that were multiracial nearly tripled, to 22%, in 2018-19, up from 7% in 1998.

“There’s an absolutely sincere desire to get this right,” said Molly Worthen, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who writes frequently about evangelicals. “A large swath of conservative evangelicals are engaged in this conversation. My sense was that Chapel Hill Bible Church was in that mix.”

The Bible church seemed perfectly positioned to attract a diverse membership, and for many years it did, boasting that 20% of people attending were nonwhite. Jay Thomas, hired as pastor in 2011, is himself biracial; he was born in India and came to the U.S. as a boy.

Many of those nonwhite members were Asian, reflecting Chapel Hill’s demographics: 13% of the town’s residents are of Asian origin, according to the U.S. Census, making them the town’s largest minority group. (Blacks constitute 10% of the population).

But during Thomas’ time as pastor, Chapel Hill Bible has reversed years of interracial progress.

Young and Sarah Whang were members at Chapel Hill Bible Church for more than 20 years. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron

“Sadly, we came to the realization that our church gives lip service to diversity but fails to engage and empathize in a real way with people of color,” Young and Sarah Whang, a Korean American couple, wrote in their resignation letter last year.

The church declined to respond to a reporter’s inquiries.

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