Dear Jim,
I sometimes find your tone a bit sharp. Sometimes harsh. Why?
Andrew
To which I reply,
Dear Andrew,
Thanks for writing. You aren’t the first to suggest that my tone is somewhat brusque and in previous queries I’ve always said what I’ll now say to you- the times in which we live call for forthrightness of speech and directness of address. Christianity is under assault, not from without, but from within. People calling themselves Christians are peddling a false Gospel which can save none and which misleads many. Emergent Christianity, Seeker Sensitive Christianity, Far Left Christianity (as exhibited in Episcopalianism), and Far Right Christianity (mostly exhibited by the heresy of Christian Zionism) all pander to the baser wishes of people rather than standing firmly on the Rock of Scripture.
The mamby pambyness of much modern Christian speech has achieved absolutely nothing. It really is time, it seems to me, for Christians to stop being so afraid of everything and to stop being on the defensive and most certainly to stop accommodating the gospel to the mob. It’s time for Christians to speak out against the false preachers and the manipulators and the money seekers and the liars which inhabit our Churches. It’s time for Christians to engage society and politics as unflinchingly Christian and unashamed of the Gospel. In short, it’s time for Christian theologians to excoriate heresy.
No one else seems to be doing it. But someone has to. And if it hairlips the devil, marginalizes me, or makes my friends on the left and right angry, so be it. I shan’t stand before God on the Last Day and confess cowardice or an unwillingness to call a spade a spade.
My tone, then, reflects my true and authentic rage at the falsehood being passed off as Christianity. When the situation changes, perhaps my mood will. Until then, let him who has an ear, hear. I won’t be sidetracked by pleas for tolerance when all that tolerance of heresy has ever gotten us is more heresy. And loads of heretics.
I hope this explains my position clearly enough.
Yours,
Jim
It is such a narrow path, sometimes it is so hard to stay on it and not veer off course without realising.
but the way to destruction is easy and wide which is why so many like it better
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This morning when i prayed that God would give christians a bark and a bite, i didnt know he was preparing Jim West. Right on Jim….Right on! Now let’s go and burn those k****s! (Kilos of heresy)
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