Sometimes kicking down the door is not always in order, especially when the door's been opened for you. When you go out on the streets, nobody has invited you there so it's no holds barred. However, when someone offers you a hand and lets you into their home/church the scenario plays out a little differently. There has to be a little more decorum as they've been kind enough to welcome you - you must show gratitude for their hospitality. I would imagine - open to correction of course - that after sermon 1 which was not bad (I think many people judge 'good' on what they would say in his place, perhaps not what God led him to say - careful men that's dangerous ground) we will see a stronger position in sermon 2. The title of the sermon even hints at that.

While pointing out heretics and apostates may make sense at times, be careful not to sling those words around - falsely accusing a brother and possibly directing him to do the opposite of what he's been called to do in that situation. We can be as certain as we are able to be that Driscoll is a Christian by his testimony and fruits. The moment a man seems to slip in our opinion we are so quick to lead him to the cliff edge. Are we not to love one another (assuming we are talking about true brothers and sisters)? How then will people know we are Christ's disciples if we spend our time in a circular firing squad?

Calling Driscoll a wolf in sheep's clothing is remarkably slanderous. The judgment for this type of 'undercover' agent is dreadful, how dare some DefCon couch inquisitor decide that God's judgment is on this faithful man because he is not a carbon copy of the blogger. Or are we to be more like Rome, where every sermon outline, book, and teaching material is passed before a Congregatio Sancti Officii run by bloggers and everyone who crosses it is executed?

Forgive my passion, there are false teachers who need to be called out. But to level such charges against someone who has evidently taken so many hits from major denominations for his biblical stances makes me burn.

oi.

When we went around asking people to let their kids/siblings come over we told them there would be games, bible stories and fun. We weren't pretending to be something else.

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