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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Is it Mean and Divisive to Call out False Teachers?

This post is coming from two experiences – one past and one recent. A couple years ago, Joel Osteen (an often-easy and maybe cliché target) tweeted this…

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Then I tweeted the following…

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If you’re new to Twitter, what’s before the backslashes is Joel’s statement and what’s after them is my commentary on his statement. Immediately, I got a FLOOD of angry responses that boiled down to two things…
  • “That’s so mean! Why not just overlook your differences and encourage a Christian brother!?”
  • “Why are you being so divisive!? Build bridges, not walls!”   Continue at Josh Howerton

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is always the people who stand for absolute truth who are called mean and divisive.

False teachers are the real schismatics.

George R. Krahn said...

The exclusive claims of Jesus Christ have always been offensive.