>Or is that benefit of the doubt something we’re only supposed to give to guys with cool hair that can drop totally cool philosophical buzzwords?

I love this ___. It’s so darned spot on. I wonder who it refers to?

Jesus described what he was creating as a Kingdom and as a church. There are places that war language applies to the Gospel, but somehow I’m doubtful that what Jesus was all about was creating an army of theological polemicists writing volumes of definitions. The entire “war” metaphor has a checkered history for Christians, with some of our better moments and a whole collection of our worst ones. One thing’s for sure: if being a Christian means joining a war, Jesus told us that war wasn’t fought in the same terms as other wars, and when we define our “enemies” in that war, there’s the constant temptation to transform the “war” into a personal vendetta. I work with hundreds of unbelievers and I am not fighting a truth war with them. I’m presenting the Gospel to every person’s conscience in the power of the Spirit.

NOTE: Just for the record, in Macarthur’s version of the “Truth War,” I’m not a Christian. So it is of interest to me.

>I’ve never thought WWJD? was a clever question. I’ve noticed that.