Scott Clark runs Heidelblog, and today he wonders if a Christian man dealt with a situation appropriately. This man (from his side of the story, we don't know the other) was working at a retail store and lost his job for stating his opinion about sodomy...this didn't come out of the blue as the woman manager made it a point of bringing up her "fiancee" (i.e. lesbian cohabitator) and flaunting her rebellion about. Here's the video:
I don't think he did a perfect job of confronting the woman...in fact, I don't think he did particularly well...but it's difficult for me to blame him. Christians are used to saying "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life"...that doesn't translate well when sin needs to be addressed. Our latent Pelagianism is caught off guard when men flaunt their sin and demonstrate they aren't looking for God to bandage up their boo-boos. We're great at talking about someone's tone of voice, or if Billy shares with others, or some other superfluous standard of "niceness". We're great at that...oh yeah, and we're very good at apologizing for being zealot Pharisees (well, okay, we don't apologize for ourselves, we apologize for all "those" other "Christians" that we're not like)...so we're out of practice when it comes to addressing sin. Here's Scott Clark's take:
If he wanted to communicate the gospel to her, Instead of accusing her of sin (of which she is guilty) would he have done better to accuse himself?Are you serious Professor Clark? Seriously? That is ridiculous...step away from your 2 kingdom view for a minute...I'm not saying become a Christian Reconstructionist, I'm just saying to act a bit more like Paul or John the Baptizer. Did Paul accuse himself when in Athens? Did Paul accuse himself when he went before Caesar? I know, did John the Baptizer accuse himself before Herod?
Is there a practical difference between Scott Clark's approach here compared to Rob Bell's Bullhorn guy?
A not-so-uncommon refrain from Calvinistic 2-Kingdomers:
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We should not be surprised when we speak the truth and the world persecutes us for it. There is no secret to preaching truth and not getting backlash. We are promised that we will be persecuted for his namesake.
I’m Protestant but that wouldn’t keep me from Notre Dame. I’m also 2K, but that wouldn’t keep me from (transformationalist) Calvin College. You’d scratch WSC because of a blog post? And I get called “radical.” Harrumph.
Zrim
Steve,
it's called hyperbole...and note I didn't say that I wouldn't go to WSC on account of a blog post...I was saying *they* wouldn't want me...of course it's hyperbole as I doubt anyone is keeping an eye on my little piece of the web.
Thanks for pointing us to the video. A single tear rolled down my cheek to discover my favorite overpriced electronics retailer is really a den of Liberal Bastions. *sigh*
Thanks for the post!
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