Today Tim Challies has an item about James MacDonald's decision to invite T. D. Jakes
to participate at Elephant Room 2. Some of Tim's commenters think it's a
fine idea for MacDonald to extend a cordial welcome to someone whose
teaching is highly suspect so that he can define and defend himself.
Mark Driscoll expressed a similar opinion in his blogpost yesterday.
He sees the Jakes invitation as an opportunity for men who differ on
fundamental doctrines to "speak to one another face-to-face rather than
about one another blog-to-blog and tweet-to-tweet."
That all
sounds very nice and cordial, and it appeals to values that are highly
prized nowadays, but is it a biblical way to respond to heresy? Can you
imagine Paul proposing a friendly sharing of the platform with the
heretics who were troubling the Galatian churches? How different would
the apostle John's advice in his second epistle have been (not to
mention his legendary encounter with Cerinthus) if he had embraced the values of our more "enlightened" age.
Anyway, here are my thoughts, as posted in the combox over at Challies: Read it HERE
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