UPDATE: Two down, two to go!
This was an illuminating but difficult article to read, from the 9Marks eJournal. Here are the editor’s comments.
Mack Stiles does the hard work of challenging one particular organization which he loves, I dare say, with the love of Christ—a love which is willing to both build up and tear down for the purposes of holiness and glory.
Dear reader, we offer these pieces not to be alarmists or critics, but in the attempt to be lovers of our churches and yours. Where we overstep, we ask for your patience and loving correction in return.
Please read and comment.
http://www.9marks.org/CC/ejournal/2010v7-1/article_stiles.htm
HT: JT
He takes what is broken, and makes it beautiful.
Ahhh, I love this quote:
If there is a sound downstairs during the night and it might be a burglar, you don’t say to her: ‘This is an egalitarian marriage, so it’s your turn to go check it out. I went last time.’ And I mean that even if your wife has a black belt in karate. After you’ve tried, she may finish off the burglar with one good kick to the solar plexus. But you better be unconscious on the floor, or you’re no man. That’s written on your soul, brother, by God Almighty. Big or little, strong or weak, night or day, you go up against the enemy first. Woe to the husband–and woe to the nation–that send their women to fight their battles.
~John Piper, as quoted by Challies
