Thanks for your detailed post. I appreciate your measured response and approach to defederation, particularly given the personal attacks you suffered. I'm happy with your approach - as long as users who do break the rules can be dealt with, there is no need to defederate.
jameseb
joined 2 years ago
The Rust book is the official standard resource for learning Rust. It assumes some experience in another programming language, but it doesn't matter which one (that is, it isn't aimed at teaching Rust as a first programming language), so there's no reason why you couldn't read it with some experience in C.
Depending on what sort of C programmer you are, you may find Learn Rust the Dangerous Way of interest as well.
Seeing baptisms is always encouraging!
I had a good Lord's day, we continued a sermon series in beatitudes, looking at "blessed are those who mourn", and particularly considering the importance of mourning over our sin, but mourning so that we turn from our sin and receive God's comfort in Christ. I had lunch at the house of one of our trainee ministers with some others from church, so it was good to share fellowship there. At our evening service, we continued going through the Heidelberg Catechism with Lord's Day 35, on the second commandment.
For me it was in university, where on my first Sunday I went where the groups heading to churches were congregating and followed the first group I came across. In the providence of God, that group went to a presbyterian church with good Bible teaching (although I didn't know it was a presbyterian church and I didn't know what Presbyterianism was at that time). It was through the teaching I received there, and seeing it was consistent with the Bible that I came to be convinced, although it took a while before I stated such. I particularly like the way the Canons of Dort present the doctrines of grace.
I guess remaking r/ReformedHumor over here would be an option if we end up not wanting too many memes.
It would be good to see more activity on this community though.
I would say the point of confessions is that the Bible is a large book, and a book that is structured as God's revelation to his people over time, rather than by theological topic. Confessions summarise our understanding of what the Bible as a whole has to say about the main points of the faith. Confessionalism recognises the need for creeds and confessions for the above reason and because people will usually have a theological framework they are applying to understand the Bible, but not declaring it upfront (as in a confession) makes it harder to discuss properly.
I've found The Creedal Imperative by Carl Trueman to be a helpful book on this topic.