“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it, or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.”
-Evangelist D.L. Moody
August 15, 2008
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“…none are more liable to slanders and calumnies than godly teachers. Not only does it arise from the difficulties of their office, that sometimes they either sink under it, or stagger, or halt, or blunder, in consequence of which wicked men (or women) seize many occasions for finding fault with them; but there is this additional vexation, that, although they perform their duty correctly, so as not to commit any error whatever, they never escape a thousand censures. And this is the craftiness of Satan, to draw away the hearts of men from ministers, that instruction may gradually fall into contempt. Thus not only is wrong done to innocent persons, in having their reputation unjustly wounded, (which is exceedingly base in regard to those who hold so honourable a rank,) but the authority of the sacred doctrine of God is diminished…Not only so, but as soon as any charge against ministers of the word has gone abroad, it is believed as fully as if they were already convicted.” John Calvin
Comment by Dad — August 15, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
I’m going to respond with the assumption that my dad, Steve Emerine, isn’t the author of this comment. I’ll discuss the “drawing away the hearts of men from ministers . . .” and “innocent persons” ideas on the blog.
Keely
Comment by Keely Emerine Mix — August 15, 2008 @ 7:33 pm