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Christian, if the only framework you have for thinking about the world is the "liberal" vs. "conservative" binary (or some cipher for this), you will be given to...
- False accusation/ slander
- Politicizing what you should be gospelizing
(cont& #39;d)
- False accusation/ slander
- Politicizing what you should be gospelizing
(cont& #39;d)
- Reinforcing a strain of self-righteousness (regardless of your claims to defending the gospel)
- Straw man arguments (Creating fictional enemies that don& #39;t exist or attributing views to your opponents that they do not actually hold)
- Straw man arguments (Creating fictional enemies that don& #39;t exist or attributing views to your opponents that they do not actually hold)
- Treating friends as enemies and enemies as friends (Failing at love)
- Undermining the disciplinary process of the church. (Especially in connectional churches.)
- Undermining the disciplinary process of the church. (Especially in connectional churches.)
- Undermining the global and historic witness of the church (which has given us an abundance of helpful frameworks, perspectives, and analytical tools that are not Western American)
- Ignorance and hubris (an ugly duo)
- Ignorance and hubris (an ugly duo)
- Ecclesiastical narcissism that undermines the Catholicity of the church.
- Fomenting a spirit of fear, rather than the spirit of power, love & self control.
- Reinforcing a dysfunctional way of navigating difference in God& #39;s church.
- Fomenting a spirit of fear, rather than the spirit of power, love & self control.
- Reinforcing a dysfunctional way of navigating difference in God& #39;s church.
