This episode: Peaches and I sort of disagree about the usefulness of gigantic ministries.
…also, school has started so it’s noisy (but that’s nothing new).
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I had a predatory teacher at a small Christian high school. He absolutely tested the girls with comments either in class, or privately. One day he told the class if my friend wore a skirt the next day we would not have a quiz. 🤢 By my senior year I didn’t even make eye contact with him. After I graduated college the new principal called me, at home, and we had a talk about his behaviors while I was a student. He was fired shortly after hearing mine and several other classmates stories. I thank the Lord that nothing happened to me while I was there and that I had a discerning spirit to know his intentions at such a young age.
Okay, so I think the Peaches went off the rails on this one. Primarily, I’m referring to her saying that someone harboring sin in their life cannot bring glory to God (which, I think is a fair paraphrase – feel free to correct me to a more accurate understanding). While, I think you can justify that sentiment with caveats and redifinitions, I really don’t think that it’s wrong at face value. I think that i can be making horrible, sinful decisions in some aspects of my life, yet be making God honoring decisions in other aspects.
Clearly, it would be best that I make God honoring decisions in all aspects of my life, but I think I can still have some unrepentant sin and God can still use other areas of my life righteously.
To be more specific. I think it’s possible that Bill Hybels really did honor God with some of his decisions. We’re not in binary categories of “A God Honoring Person” and “A God Dishonoring Person” (I’ll repeat the caveat that we can justify those categories, but they don’t mean what it sounds at face value), we make decisions that are God Honoring or God Dishonoring.
Am I too far off base? Feel free to modify my vocab as well.
So far, I’m having a hard time fighting with you. I agree it’s possible to honor God in some aspects of life and not others…
But what I was trying to say is that covering up “the bad” in order to protect “the good” NEVER makes sense. And since Hybel’s ministry is cultivating people who believe they should tolerate sin because Bill’s image is such an important part of their business plan, I don’t see anything worth tolerating in the entire system they’ve created… It causes more net harm than good, I think.
Hmm… I agree with everything you said in that comment… I heard a much more “black and white” picture of the morality of a person in the podcast, but I can certainly see me reading that too far into something else you may have said.
I swear there was something horrendous you said ^_-….
Keep looking! I’m sure she said something horrendous too! Don’t be so agreeable!!!!
Worst. War. Ever!
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Truthfully, I probably said something outlandish while I was ranting. Haha. But up above is what I meant to convey…