Nathan Creitz
@nathancreitz.bsky.social
- Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Bay Shore, NY
- Aspiring Pastor-Theologian pursuing a PhD from NOBTS in Missiology
- Helping disciples make disciples
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- Aspiring Pastor-Theologian pursuing a PhD from NOBTS in Missiology
- Helping disciples make disciples
bit.ly/nathancreitz
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Nathan Creitz
@nathancreitz.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Quick intro:
* 26 years in ministry including 20+ years planting & revitalizing churches in Boston & the New York metropolitan area.
* Exploring urban & diaspora missiology for the purpose of strengthening & multiplying multicultural/multilingual churches.
* Helping disciples make disciples.
* 26 years in ministry including 20+ years planting & revitalizing churches in Boston & the New York metropolitan area.
* Exploring urban & diaspora missiology for the purpose of strengthening & multiplying multicultural/multilingual churches.
* Helping disciples make disciples.
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NEW from @bmietana.bsky.social, @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social and me: Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried.
And yes, we did some digging about *that* viral church raids story that has been floating around. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/v...
And yes, we did some digging about *that* viral church raids story that has been floating around. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/v...
Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried
(RNS) — Rumors and viral reports about potential ICE raids have immigrant church leaders worried about their congregations. DHS says it doesn’t have plans to raid churches — but won’t rule it out.
religionnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
NEW from @bmietana.bsky.social, @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social and me: Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried.
And yes, we did some digging about *that* viral church raids story that has been floating around. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/v...
And yes, we did some digging about *that* viral church raids story that has been floating around. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/v...
Yeah, it does seem plausible as a scenario. But when the SBC rep denied that a meeting took place that pretty much negates the anonymous pastors. And it's hard to imagine this one reporter got 3 DOJ anonymous sources from different New England states.
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yeah, it does seem plausible as a scenario. But when the SBC rep denied that a meeting took place that pretty much negates the anonymous pastors. And it's hard to imagine this one reporter got 3 DOJ anonymous sources from different New England states.
I haven’t found confirmation of this story anywhere else. And the journalism is suspicious to me. Read with caution.
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I haven’t found confirmation of this story anywhere else. And the journalism is suspicious to me. Read with caution.
What is King Herod up to now?
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
What is King Herod up to now?
Pork you pine?
Pork uh pine?
Porky pine?
Pork uh pine?
Porky pine?
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Pork you pine?
Pork uh pine?
Porky pine?
Pork uh pine?
Porky pine?
We welcome immigrants to pick produce and hit home runs but we won’t welcome them as our neighbors or fellow church members. Why do we need to see someone’s papers before we can see their humanity?
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
We welcome immigrants to pick produce and hit home runs but we won’t welcome them as our neighbors or fellow church members. Why do we need to see someone’s papers before we can see their humanity?
We are at a turning point in the USA.
Will we turn back to the biblical gospel that speaks truth and extends grace to society?
Or will we turn to a perverted gospel that syncretizes our worldly allegiances with a thin veneer of Christian morality?
Will we turn back to the biblical gospel that speaks truth and extends grace to society?
Or will we turn to a perverted gospel that syncretizes our worldly allegiances with a thin veneer of Christian morality?
September 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We are at a turning point in the USA.
Will we turn back to the biblical gospel that speaks truth and extends grace to society?
Or will we turn to a perverted gospel that syncretizes our worldly allegiances with a thin veneer of Christian morality?
Will we turn back to the biblical gospel that speaks truth and extends grace to society?
Or will we turn to a perverted gospel that syncretizes our worldly allegiances with a thin veneer of Christian morality?
Really interesting. I agree with you on MT Esther. I’ve written on how to harmonize languages and cultures in one church rather than assimilating. Assimilation maintains the cultural blinders of the dominant group and erases the identities of the minority group. Thanks for sharing your work.
June 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Really interesting. I agree with you on MT Esther. I’ve written on how to harmonize languages and cultures in one church rather than assimilating. Assimilation maintains the cultural blinders of the dominant group and erases the identities of the minority group. Thanks for sharing your work.
Inside The Ends and Means Email:
Is the Great Commission for "over there" or for "over here"?
It's obviously both, but which one has been more neglected in modern missions discussions?
nathancreitz.kit.com/posts/introd...
Is the Great Commission for "over there" or for "over here"?
It's obviously both, but which one has been more neglected in modern missions discussions?
nathancreitz.kit.com/posts/introd...
Introducing The Ends and Means Email | Nathan Creitz
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April 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Inside The Ends and Means Email:
Is the Great Commission for "over there" or for "over here"?
It's obviously both, but which one has been more neglected in modern missions discussions?
nathancreitz.kit.com/posts/introd...
Is the Great Commission for "over there" or for "over here"?
It's obviously both, but which one has been more neglected in modern missions discussions?
nathancreitz.kit.com/posts/introd...
Daniel and his friends didn't rise to prominence because they ate vegetables. They were elevated to prominent positions because God gave them strength and wisdom.
The Faith of the Exiles in Daniel One
Today, 122.6 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes.1 Individuals, families, and entire people groups are forced to live in exile. Many who are fleeing for their lives are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Their experience has similarities to that of Daniel and his friends who were Jewish exiles in Babylon in 605 B.C.
nathancreitz.net
February 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Daniel and his friends didn't rise to prominence because they ate vegetables. They were elevated to prominent positions because God gave them strength and wisdom.
I’m looking for books on diaspora missiology from a North American context written in past 2-3 years.
February 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I’m looking for books on diaspora missiology from a North American context written in past 2-3 years.
Is The Great Commission for Over There or Over Here?
Before William Carey popularized Matthew 28:18-20 as THE Great Commission, most Christians largely ignored this mandate. They neglected to make disciples of all nations. If God wants to convert the heathen (as one skeptic admonished Carey) He…
Before William Carey popularized Matthew 28:18-20 as THE Great Commission, most Christians largely ignored this mandate. They neglected to make disciples of all nations. If God wants to convert the heathen (as one skeptic admonished Carey) He…
Is The Great Commission for Over There or Over Here?
Before William Carey popularized Matthew 28:18-20 as THE Great Commission, most Christians largely ignored this mandate. They neglected to make disciples of all nations. If God wants to convert the heathen (as one skeptic admonished Carey) He will do it without consulting you and me! Photo by Aymane Hanni on Pexels.com Is it possible that Western Christians have now made an equally devastating mistake concerning the Great Commission?
nathancreitz.net
February 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Is The Great Commission for Over There or Over Here?
Before William Carey popularized Matthew 28:18-20 as THE Great Commission, most Christians largely ignored this mandate. They neglected to make disciples of all nations. If God wants to convert the heathen (as one skeptic admonished Carey) He…
Before William Carey popularized Matthew 28:18-20 as THE Great Commission, most Christians largely ignored this mandate. They neglected to make disciples of all nations. If God wants to convert the heathen (as one skeptic admonished Carey) He…
Now you're going to have flies in ointment pics in your feed.
January 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Now you're going to have flies in ointment pics in your feed.
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Rachel Karten's recent article, “Legacy Media Companies Need a New Social Playbook,” explores a fundamental shift in how social media platforms and websites interact. Historically, media organizations used social media (Point A) to drive traffic to their websites (Point B).
A thread:
A thread:
December 17, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Rachel Karten's recent article, “Legacy Media Companies Need a New Social Playbook,” explores a fundamental shift in how social media platforms and websites interact. Historically, media organizations used social media (Point A) to drive traffic to their websites (Point B).
A thread:
A thread:
I'd click but I feel like you explained it well in this thread.
Just kidding, great points!
Just kidding, great points!
December 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM
I'd click but I feel like you explained it well in this thread.
Just kidding, great points!
Just kidding, great points!
Certainly should not be a crime. But it is terrible sportsmanship. If it's not what I would teach my children to do coaching them in basketball or flag football then I have no respect for a player or team that does it at the college level.
December 13, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Certainly should not be a crime. But it is terrible sportsmanship. If it's not what I would teach my children to do coaching them in basketball or flag football then I have no respect for a player or team that does it at the college level.
To dazzle and delight us.
December 13, 2024 at 9:54 PM
To dazzle and delight us.
Christmas is about something deep and spiritual.
You’ll miss it if your focus is on something shallow and material.
You’ll miss it if your focus is on something shallow and material.
December 11, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Christmas is about something deep and spiritual.
You’ll miss it if your focus is on something shallow and material.
You’ll miss it if your focus is on something shallow and material.
Preaching is not an information transfer but to inform transformation.
December 10, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Preaching is not an information transfer but to inform transformation.
You say "majority of scholars" believe there were different authors of ch 2-3 & 4. Can you name a few? And the book or peer-reviewed journal articles this scholar has written that establishes that point? Why is it impossible to believe these were oral traditions written down in 13th century bc?
December 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
You say "majority of scholars" believe there were different authors of ch 2-3 & 4. Can you name a few? And the book or peer-reviewed journal articles this scholar has written that establishes that point? Why is it impossible to believe these were oral traditions written down in 13th century bc?
Our freedom in Christ doesn’t give us rights to say or do what we will. It gives us the will to say and do what is right.
Christian freedom has nothing to do with our country’s freedoms.
You can have freedom of speech and still be a slave of sin.
Christian freedom has nothing to do with our country’s freedoms.
You can have freedom of speech and still be a slave of sin.
December 9, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Our freedom in Christ doesn’t give us rights to say or do what we will. It gives us the will to say and do what is right.
Christian freedom has nothing to do with our country’s freedoms.
You can have freedom of speech and still be a slave of sin.
Christian freedom has nothing to do with our country’s freedoms.
You can have freedom of speech and still be a slave of sin.
When you have a dozen academic books assigned so you pick up a different academic book to chill. Is this PhD level procrastination?
December 9, 2024 at 2:13 PM
When you have a dozen academic books assigned so you pick up a different academic book to chill. Is this PhD level procrastination?
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“When I say we need pastor-theologians in the church, I mean that every pastor must conduct his ministry w/ an eye to declaring theological truth, diagnosing theological error, & discipling his congregation to be theologically informed and articulate.” -Kevin DeYoung
www.9marks.org/article/why-...
www.9marks.org/article/why-...
Why We Need Pastor-Theologians in the Church - 9Marks
When I say we need pastor-theologians in the church, I mean that every pastor must conduct his ministry with an eye to declaring theological truth, diagnosing theological error, and discipling his con...
www.9marks.org
December 8, 2024 at 5:18 PM
“When I say we need pastor-theologians in the church, I mean that every pastor must conduct his ministry w/ an eye to declaring theological truth, diagnosing theological error, & discipling his congregation to be theologically informed and articulate.” -Kevin DeYoung
www.9marks.org/article/why-...
www.9marks.org/article/why-...
December 9, 2024 at 4:33 AM