Christian | Redefining Healthy Dating Standards | Twin - @anthea_grace | insta - amanda___praise 💖✨
Abuja, Nigeria
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Amanda Praise retweeted
I knew he was an insecure person when he would randomly say shii like,
“Are you the first person to do a PhD?”
“Why are you so proud?”
Nobody told me before I spoke to my legs.
Amanda Praise retweeted
Him: I think God is calling me to be a pastor.
Me: Okay.
Him: I am just worried about how your sexual and reproductive health career fits into that. What will you do about it?
🤡🤡🤡🤡
I should leave my own longtime career bcos it doesn’t align with your newly found idea???
Amanda Praise retweeted
I'm passing the phone to someone who's almost giving up.
You've prayed, waited, and cried. Please, hold on a little longer. God still sees you, and your story isn't over.
Amanda Praise retweeted
Dear Single ladies,
May you find someone who loves every version of you. The childish you, the emotional you, the ambitious you, the quiet you and even the version of you that sometimes doesn't know what to do. Someone who doesn't weaponise your vulnerability but handles your heart with tenderness.
Send it to yourself if you believe.
Amanda Praise retweeted
I can’t wait for the part of my life where I get to wake up next to the love of my life every single day.
Amanda Praise retweeted
As a Christian, always expect to face opposition. The beliefs you hold naturally expose the world's shortcomings, which provokes people to attack you even if you cause no harm.
Amanda Praise retweeted
Transgenderism is a dangerous combination of several mental disorders, and has clear links to violent ideology and behavior.
We will NEVER be forced to accept your cosplay, and we will not let our children be groomed anymore.
Those 5 members of congress should be put into therapy, and given a strict medication regimen.
Amanda Praise retweeted
With respect to the raging cohabitation debates on X right now:
Please understand that as pastors we are constantly told by Christian couples that either:
1. They are not physically intimate at all despite living together
or
2. They have been physically intimate but will just "sleep in separate rooms" and "stop that aspect of our relationship" while planning a wedding a year in advance.
or
3. There is just no feasible way (economically etc.) that they can move out.
#1 is typically a lie or a half truth dependent upon a very narrow definition of what constitutes sexual activity.
Frankly, my initial reaction is: "I was not born yesterday."
#2 is the kind of promise that a couple who has lived in a sinful state for a long time does not have the spiritual maturity or willpower to keep.
It is not loving or kind to send an alcoholic to a bar because he promises he'll be sober.
It is also not loving or kind to send a couple who has become totally enmeshed physically back into a common living situation without significant discipleship and guardrails.
#3 is a trickier one, but my experience is this: I make an offer to help find a place for one or both individuals to stay. I assure the couple that someone in the church will likely make a room available etc.
In 80-90% of cases, the couple declines the offer of help straight up.
This makes it obvious that the economic excuse was just that: an excuse to justify their apparent apathy towards honoring God with their bodies.
If we wink at these situations, we rightfully incur the disdain of (to use one example) LGBT individuals who then point out that we are using contradictory standards in the way we theologically and pastorally approach sexual sin.
Either sexual activity outside of the marriage covenant is sin or it isn't.
Our pastoral approach should be compassionate but firm as we remind people that they should honor God with their bodies precisely because they have been bought with a price. (1 Cor. 6:19-20)
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"You two are living together. Tell me more about that," I said in my office.
"We already know it's not Biblical," the bride-to-be said.
"Okay. Say more."
"What do you mean? I'm saying we know cohabitation isn't Biblical."
"Yeah that's what's confusing me. When you asked to meet, you told me you wanted a pastor who shares your Biblical values to do your wedding, but now you're telling me you knowing don't live according to Biblical values? Tell me about how you decided to cohabitate."
"Well, we know what the Bible says about marriage and sex, but my lease was up and if I moved in with my parents it'd be a 45 minute drive and if I got my own place again, it'd be a waste of thousands of dollars."
"Ah. So time and money are your gods."
"No they aren't, we're Christians."
"Maybe. But it seems like you're not - a god is what tells you how to live. You chose to listen to time and money on sex and cohabitation instead of Jesus. Which is your god?"
"Does this mean you won't do our wedding?"
"I didn't say that. But, you did say you wanted a pastor. That's why we're here. I'm a pastor, not a hireling wedding officiant. Do you want a pastor or a vender for your wedding?"
"A pastor."
"Okay, great. Then here's my concern for you: you've developed a habit of hardening your hearts against the authority of Scripture and the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Today, if you hear his voice, don't harden your hearts as they did in the rebellion. You said your Christians, I'll take your word for it right now, but you need to repent and move out until your wedding night. Jesus will certainly forgive if you repent and he'll cleanse you from all unrighteousness."
"Okay. So, if we don't do this then you won't do our wedding?"
"You're missing the point here. You're not even close to worried enough about what God thinks or says. My job as a pastor is to help you care about what God says, not get you to care about what I say.”
“Okay.”
“Do you have anything to say?” I said to the Groom-To-Be.
“No.”
“That’s a bummer. You’re not going to lead this family if you have nothing to say.”
“Okay.”
“Alright. Well, you have a lot to think about. If you want a pastor, I’d be happy to be a part of your wedding. If you want a vendor, let me know. More important than your wedding is your relationship with Jesus. Is He your God or not? Think and pray together.”
*an email three days later*
“We’ve decided to go a different direction.”
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Some thoughts:
1. My heart breaks for those who make time and money their god. This idolatry is oppressive.
2. I’d for sure officiate the wedding of two non-Christians. As long as they’re okay with me telling the truth about what marriage is and who and what it’s for, I’m in. This is a 10/10 evangelism opportunity straight out of Eph 5:32.
3. But, two professing Christians who are sinning highhandedly? No. “For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside.” 1 Co 5:12–13).
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Heavenly Father, we are in the 11th month and you’re the God of the 11th hour please let it all work out for me
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Amanda Praise retweeted
make sure you’re disgusted by your own sin as much as you’re disgusted by the sins of others
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A lot of people are not good people. They are just people who have never been in a position where being good would cost them something. Many people are not as principled as they think. They have simply never been sufficiently tempted.
It is easy to talk about loyalty when you have nothing to gain from betraying someone. It is easy to preach honesty when the truth doesn't threaten your interests. It is easy to condemn infidelity when you have never had an opportunity to cheat without getting caught. It is easy to talk about integrity when doing the right thing doesn't come at a personal cost.
I think we sometimes give people too much credit for virtues they have never actually had to demonstrate under pressure.
Your character is not fully revealed by what you say you would never do. It is revealed by what you have the opportunity to do, what you stand to gain from doing it, and what you choose when nobody can hold you accountable.
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For anyone who has ever wondered if a love that is gentle, intentional, consistent and reassuring is too much to ask for, it isn’t. You are not asking for too much by wanting to feel considered, appreciated and understood. You deserve to experience a love that doesn’t leave you constantly questioning where you stand. Please don’t convince yourself that the kind of love you desire is beyond your reach. It is possible for you too.
