[and he rocks! (Tiger edit)]
Several years ago I wrote a fairly restrained critique of the emerging
church movement as it then existed, before it morphed into its present
diverse configurations.1
That little book earned me some of the angriest, bitterness-laced
emails I have ever received—to say nothing, of course, of the blog
posts. There were other responses, of course—some approving and
grateful, some thoughtful and wanting to dialogue. But the ones that
displayed the greatest intensity were those whose indignation was white
hot because I had not first approached privately those whose positions I
had criticized in the book. What a hypocrite I was—criticizing my
brothers on ostensible biblical grounds when I myself was not following
the Bible’s mandate to observe a certain procedure nicely laid out in Matt 18:15–17.
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