The Trap of Donatism White, January 22nd, 2024.

Introduction

As the aftermath of the great evangelical leadership meltdown continues the pace, we find ourselves in the midst of a very interesting discussion.

What do we do about evangelical leaders who wobbled and evangelical leaders who stood

firm now that some of the smoke is cleared and some of those who wobbled are starting to see

things more clearly or at least they are speaking in writing as though they see things more clearly,

but maybe they don't.

Now what?

What I'm going to write here includes a number of conservative players

and ostensibly conservative players,

and I'm going to throw them all into one great big pot.

I am including some who were revealed in the event to not have actually been conservative at all.

But with everyone included, I am talking about the world that includes Scott annual,

Tom Askel, Tim Bailey, Alistairbegg, Josh Bice, Josh Dawes, Kevin DeYoung, Jeff Durbin, Michael Foster,

David French, John Harris, Josh Howerton, Andrew Isker,

Jared Longshore, John MacArthur, Almolar, Russell Moore, John Piper, Eric Reed,

Joe Rigny, 80 Robles, Colin Smothers, Toby Sumter, Carl Truman, Andrew Walker, James

White, Stephen Wolf, William Wolf, James Wood, and Jeff Wright, and me.

And I'm sure I left some worthy folks out and my apologies.

If you were to mention them to me, I would say,

oh yeah, and put them in.

The stress test that we all went through over the last few years included,

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