#Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

[slave-of-the-lord-jesus-christ]

Christians are called to live in the world but not live like the world. Christians are called to dine with sinners but not sin with sinners.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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[lonelyplanetfag]

wishing everyone that's ever read the secret thoughts of an unlikely convert by rosaria champagne butterfield a very get well fucking soon

[reformedbits]

Jesus dines with sinners so that he can get close enough to touch us, so that he can participate in the intimacy of table fellowship as a healer and a helper. Jesus comes to change us, to transform us, so that after we have dined with Jesus, we want Jesus more than the sin that beckons our fidelity.

- Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World

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[peacestrengthandclarity]

Temptation yielded to is lust deified.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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[theshanevanderhart-blog]

Rejecting the Prosperity Gospel About Sexuality

I just started to read Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield when, right in the preface of her book, she offered a rebuke to many fellow Christians who equate having homoerotic desire as being homosexual and therefore incompatible with true faith in Christ. 

Butterfield writes addressing a time she was asked if a lesbian daughter of a friend of hers was going to commit her life to Jesus and “go straight.”

Homoerotic desire, these folks believe, is rooted in willful sin, bad choice-making, full-blown lust, and/or lack of knowledge of or real faith in Jesus. Without intending it, they endorse a prosperity gospel about sexuality, one that falsely believes that Christ died on a cross and rose again to make you happy and prosperous on earth. We all make choices along the path of our life journeys, but if sin is only about bad choice-making, we don’t need a savior. Sin is bigger and deeper and longer than bad choice making. All sin is a vestige of the fall and a transgression against God, but that doesn’t mean that patterns of temptation are themselves proof that we are actively sinning. While it is true that in conversion we are new creatures in Christ, it is also true that on this side of the resurrection we will struggle with all manner of sin, including, if God permits, homoerotic desire.

Faith in Christ does not erase our sin nature. It does mean that we have been freed from the slavery of sin, the Apostle Paul deals with this in his epistle to the Church in Rome.

We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ has being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once and for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ, (Romans 6:6-11, ESV).

Now here is the kicker, now that we are no longer enslaved by sin what does this mean for us? Does it mean we are never tempted? Does it mean we are suddenly free from struggle? All Christians, at least those who are honest with themselves know this isn’t true.

The Apostle Paul continues:

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace, (Romans 6:12-14, ESV).

This passage doesn’t tell me that we will not struggle, but it tells me that we are free to present ourselves to God and that sin will not have dominion over us.

We are free when temptation comes to “take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete,” (2 Corinthians 105b-6, ESV).

We are to be living sacrifices, (Romans 12:1), not to be conformed to this world, but in Christ be transformed through the renewal of our mind, (Romans 12:2).

This doesn’t mean the temptation is no longer is there, but rather through eyes that can now see, what we once saw as good, pleasing, and right is no longer so. We are to walk in obedience, so we pursue holiness. We can’t assume that God will suddenly make the opposite sex attractive to those who have struggled with same-sex attraction but can expect that those who claim Christ will have repented of their sins in general (and homosexual sin in particular) and seek obedience in this area.

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[thisisthepilgrimsprogress]

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[psalm40speakstome]

There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

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[vida-perante-deus]

Não diminuia o real significado do pecado

Essas deturpações do Evangelho são perigosas e enganosas. O pecado não é um mero erro. Um erro é pegar a entrada errada na rodovia. Um pecado é um ato de traição contra o Deus Santo. Um erro é um deslize lógico. O pecado esconde-se em nosso coração e nos agarra pelo pescoço para cumprir suas ordens. Lembra-se do que Deus disse a Caim sobre seu pecado. Vale para nós também. No Capítulo 4 de Genesis Deus adverte Caim desta forma: "o pecado jaz à porta, e o desejo dele será contra ti, mas tu deves dominá-lo" (Gn 4.7).

Ao aceitar deturpações do Evangelho que apresentam o pecado como menos que isso, você nunca descobrirá o fruto do arrependimento. O apóstolo Paulo define a vida pós conversão de forma simples: em Cristo ele agora pratica "obras de arrependimento" (At 26.20)

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield - Pensamentos Secretos de uma Convertida Improvável: A jornada de uma professora de língua inglesa rumo à fé cristã, pág 69.

[institutogamaliel]

História incrível de professora lésbica, feminista e ateísta, Rosaria Butterfield que encontrou Jesus

História incrível de professora lésbica, feminista e ateísta, Rosaria Butterfield que encontrou Jesus

“Como uma professora lésbica de esquerda, eu desprezava os cristãos … A palavra Jesus ficou presa na minha garganta como uma presa de elefante; não importa o quão forte eu sufoque, eu não conseguiria arrancar. Aqueles que professavam esse nome causaram minha pena e ira.

A professora lésbica, feminista e ateísta Rosaria Butterfield Encontra Cristo

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[daily-doctrine]

Gay may be how someone feels, but it can never be who someone inherently is.

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[neoref]

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield: Are We Living Out Romans 1? Blessing and Curse in a Post-Obergefell World http://bit.ly/3957Mkn

[lonelyplanetfag]

tysm 4 the tag @zigmentality !!! sending u love n good vibes etc etc:))

what book are you currently reading?

the secret thoughts of an unlikely convert by rosaria champagne butterfield (un fucking fortunately cuz it's terrible btw)

what's your favorite movie you saw in cinemas last year?

i saw so many omg but i rlly loved bullet train

what do you usually wear?

band tee + black jeans w safety pins all stuck in em + beat up converse + rings n bracelets

how tall r you?

5'7" i think

what’s your star sign? do you share a birthday with any historical figure or event?

im a leo n not that i know of

do you go by a name or nickname?

name

did you grow up to become what you wanted to be as a child?

i mean. nine year old me was dead set on being a gorgeous natural blonde by thirteen & im still a brunette

something youre good at vs something you’re bad at?

good at fidgeting bad at writing

dogs or cats?

cats all the fuckin way

if you draw/write/create what’s your favourite picture/line etc from something you’ve created this past year?

didn't make anything i'd say i liked all that much but i tried

what’s something you would like to create content for?

not rlly anything ? idk Creating Content feels business-y & work-ish & boring as fuck

what’s something you’re currently obsessed with?

music. all of it. all the time. my mom yells at me for having my earbuds up too loud- which is valid- but im bad at listening 2 her regardless

something you were excited for this year that turned out to be disappointing?

dyeing my hair cuz i can't get it how i want unless i pay 4 it all myself which was Not what i agreed to at first

what’s a hidden talent of yours?

idk i dont think i have one

are you religious?

yea

what’s something you wish you had at this moment?

somebody sitting next 2 me

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[surejaya]

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. There, her partner rehabilitated abandoned and abused dogs. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department’s curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down—the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was, an idea that flew in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a “train wreck” at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could. "Conversion put me in a complicated and comprehensive chaos. I sometimes wonder, when I hear other Christians pray for the salvation of the “lost,” if they realize that this comprehensive chaos is the desired end of such prayers. Often, people asked me to describe the “lessons” that I learned from this experience. I can’t. It was too traumatic. Sometimes in crisis, we don’t really learn lessons. Sometimes the result is simpler and more profound: sometimes our character is simply transformed." —Rosaria Butterfield

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[peacestrengthandclarity]

Our hearts are an idol factory and our minds an excuse-making factory.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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[calvinistquotes]

In Christ, faith does not erase facts, but it does illuminate them.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

[kindquotesdaily]

Good teachers make it possible for people to change their positions without shame.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

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