Ladies and gentlemen, should you call out somebody you know who is a believer who is teaching

something wrong?

We started this conversation last week based on someone who wrote in and was

complaining that we had called out Tim Keller on something at least Megan

Bashum did and we talked a lot in the last podcast about this.

Tim Keller, one of my favorite preachers, really of all time, but I think we need to be fair

and point out when somebody gets something wrong, you should call it out if it's an important issue.

And I think the issues we talked about last week were important.

Go back and listen to last week's podcast,

the Friday or Saturday podcast that came out.

But let's now talk about what might be behind

some of the wishy-washiness that we're all susceptible to when we want to please

people who are not Christians. In fact, Bill Dembski, the great Bill Dempski, the man with two PhDs, one of the founders of the

intelligent design movement, has a sub-stack blog and I'll put his article that I'm about to read from in the show notes.

He talks about how the scriptures warn us from trying to be friends with the world in order to be

liked by the world. And here's what Dembski writes.

He says, the scriptures teach repeatedly

that we should guard against recognition, accolades, and advancement from those hostile to the faith.

And that in fact we are on much safer ground when those hostile to the faith persecute rather than praise us.

This is not to say that we should purposefully make ourselves so annoying and

distasteful that we receive the reproach of unbelievers as when Christians act as hypocrites.

But it is to say that by quietly and consistently living out our faith, we will naturally attract opposition.

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