We will recall the heady days of William Jennings Bryan, when being "progressive" meant you were passionately pursuing God's Word and applying in all of life, not chasing after man's glorification of himself. Isn't it strange how preachers used to be our greatest men, now we treat them as outmoded anachronisms? Where are we going? Did anyone see Donahue's verbal mauling of the president of a Southern Baptist seminary? What was the horribly offensive remark he uttered to deserve Donahue's wrath, you ask? He said, "Jesus is the Jewish Messiah." Last time I checked, that was our confession for two millenia. Christianity is worthless without that claim. Perhaps that's too offensive these days. How ridiculous!
I once had a friend, a dear friend, who helped me with personal care needs in college. Reformed Presbyterian to the core. When I was a Reformed Presbyterian, I visited their church many times. We were close. I still consider his siblings my friends. (And siblings in the Lord.) Nevertheless, when I began to consider the claims of the Catholic Church to be the Church Christ founded, he took me out to breakfast. He implied--but never quite stated--that we would not be brothers, if I sought full communion with the Catholic Church. That came true; a couple years later, I called him on his birthday, as I'd done every year for close to ten of them. He didn't recognize my number, and it was the most strained, awkward phone call I have ever had. We haven't spoken since. We were close enough that I attended the rehearsal dinner for his wedding. His wife's uncle is a Catholic priest. I remember reading a blog post of theirs, that early in their relationship, she told him of the p
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