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| Quick to Hear, Slow to Speak | | Date Created: Jan 13, 2006, 06:49 AM |
Intellectual honesty does not come naturally when we are critiquing our "enemies." After all, it's hard work, requiring some humility on our part. This is especially difficult for "confessional Reformed" Christians, it seems to me. I'm not exactly sure why, but it's something I myself have had to repent of on many occasions and so I can usually detect it in others. Perhaps we feel so superior to other Christians that we need not try to understand things from their point of view? I don't know. What is more likely is that we see all other theological and/or ecclesiastical options as dangerous and are constantly afraid that people under our care will be seduced and "switch sides." But just because someone may think that the Emergent Church movement or N.T. Wright, for example, are not "on our side" that does not give them the license to "trump up" their charges against them in their effort to "warn people."
Joel's post is spot on. |
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