Sunday, September 09, 2007

watchdogs and the watchdog watchers

I am doing a little thinking about some questions I received about watchdog blogs and blogs about watchdog blogs and about my statements regarding Pyromaniacs and the anti-Emergent posters. Here's the passage I am currently meditating on.

2 Timothy 2.14-26

Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

I find it interesting the Word is more focussed on dealing with God's people caught-up in inappropriate fighting of evil then in addressing Hymenaeus and Philetus.

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1 comment:

Rick Frueh said...

We seem to have a much deeper love for truth (or what we perceive it to be) than we do for each other. If God loved His truth (Himself) more than He loved us there would have been no Jn.3:16.

God so loved thw world that He gave Himself...

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