tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post3665096563056964397..comments2024-03-15T03:20:59.286-05:00Comments on Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology: Eager to CriticizeDane Ortlundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17583355241279798089noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post-54563467930100921482010-08-11T12:20:59.099-05:002010-08-11T12:20:59.099-05:00Dane - good word brother.
You sound/write like ...Dane - good word brother. <br /><br />You sound/write like your dad - and I mean that as a high compliment.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05840479818099362754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post-5321852620731437852010-08-09T23:11:51.990-05:002010-08-09T23:11:51.990-05:00Hey Dane:
No worries. I thought you may have a pol...Hey Dane:<br />No worries. I thought you may have a policy of not permitting links to other blogs/source, so...<br /><br />Here's what I said [albeit ipsissima vox]:<br />"Thanks for this admonition. I certainly need to hear this. But I wonder, must we always begin with something positive. Is there ever a time to be just negative? I am thinking of Galatians vis-a-vis Paul's opening to Philippians. I annotated a recent worship experience from a first visit to a church in an <a href="http://inchristus.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/open-letter-to-pastors-and-their-churches/" rel="nofollow">Open Letter to Pastors and Their Churches</a> and the intended audience slammed me on several fronts [via private email exchange]. Of course, my entry did directly apply to our worship experience, but it indirectly applies to all churches that seem to "overstate" the production of worship at the expense of the necessities in worship.Paul D. Adamshttp://inchristus.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post-40407612175588126482010-08-09T13:47:27.467-05:002010-08-09T13:47:27.467-05:00Paul - it appears I deleted your comment? Apologie...Paul - it appears I deleted your comment? Apologies brother!Dane Ortlundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17583355241279798089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post-90493069281949278052010-08-09T13:46:18.025-05:002010-08-09T13:46:18.025-05:00Hi Paul, thanks for the thoughtful comment.
Yes, ...Hi Paul, thanks for the thoughtful comment.<br /><br />Yes, there is a time not to start out positive: when the gospel itself is at stake. That was the issue in Gal. In every other of his letters, Paul starts out with commendation--even to the Corinthians! Yet the Corinthians were the most perverted, screwed up bunch of weirdos around. On the outside, the Galatian church would have looked much more healthy. But the Cor's, though failing to incorporate the ramifications of the gospel, were not distorting the gospel itself, as in Gal.<br /><br />Unless the gospel itself is at stake, the path of wisdom is to look hard, as hard as is necessary, to find something positive to say before and after raising a criticism, if a criticism is indeed needed (what struck me and prompted my post is that I didn't even need to criticize--there was no value or edification in it).Dane Ortlundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17583355241279798089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post-34609701583399036122010-08-09T12:04:42.773-05:002010-08-09T12:04:42.773-05:00I really want to criticize this post...
Thanks fo...I really want to criticize this post...<br /><br />Thanks for this convicting and gospel-driven word.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034192017775511612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post-35648280553107928712010-08-06T11:16:24.883-05:002010-08-06T11:16:24.883-05:00Thanks for the good comment Eric.Thanks for the good comment Eric.Dane Ortlundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17583355241279798089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post-22576570497120947102010-08-06T10:22:17.239-05:002010-08-06T10:22:17.239-05:00Dane - A few months ago I did EXACTLY the same thi...Dane - A few months ago I did EXACTLY the same thing when asked my opinion about another OT scholar. I would genuine go about interpreting the OT in different ways from that person - but my goodness, they're under grace like I am, doing the best they can. I went back later and apologized to the person I spoke to. Thank you, dear brother, for persistently and prophetically sounding this note in your blog. Thank you.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930200263533672575noreply@blogger.com