>As opposed to the blogs which close the comments threads when the blog owner is challenged….

I hate to hear a good TR brother smacking on EmergentNo like that. Where’s the love?

This arrives in the mailbox this morning from a fan of the “Pit With No Bottom” post.

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

That’s why I am proud to be in the arena, inviting lost people- openly- to come to a school that will accept them, preaching the Gospel- openly- to them 2-3x a week, caring for them, educating them, respecting them and, without any deception or outright misrepresentation of what I am doing, sharing the Gospel- openly- with them at every opportunity.

“2Co 4:1-2 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. (2) But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.”

We seek to bring every thought into captivity to Christ, but how about doing it God’s way? How about, at the end of the day, being able to say, 2Co 4:5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

How do you get up on your high horse about misrepresentation?