Cindy

Cheryl,

Could you forward Dr. Gundry’s contact info/email to me? I quoted him in a lecture I gave that is soon to go online, and someone interrupted me mid-lecture to ask who he was. I wasn’t anticipating the interruption and it threw me. After the lecture, I wanted to kick myself for not citing him as a professor at Moody Bible Institute (though I had him well referenced in my bibliography and mentioned so). Before this all goes public, I wanted to grovel and apologize!

Thanks,
Cindy Kunsman

I just don’t understand why and how these groups and individuals that claim to be reformed and reportedly embrace the concept of providence as a result work so hard to squelch criticism. I wonder if Slick is related to the Baylys? Is this behaviour in a Presby catechism somewhere? But then there is the whole “I’m elect and you’re not, so I can treat you however I want” response that some have.

What is so sad is that these folks don’t politely say that we agree to disagree or that their presuppostitions are just too different to have productive dialogue. It amazes me that they’d rather display this infantile pride driven response rather than simple kindness and respect. They will know us by our love for one another?

I was just on Wade Burleson’s blog, and he had nearly 65 responses in less than a day to a blog post that touches on the whole comp/egal subject. People are accusing him of hatred of Paige Patterson and rebellion and angst and liberalism. It’s amazing to me, and I just don’t get it. I continue to be amazed at how central this issue has become for so many Evangelicals in just ten years or so. I can’t believe how emotional everyone is and as Wade said how they take non-essentials and make mountains out of them.

Again, I think of how “You only intimidate the weak.”

Dr. Buth also brought up something that is very important in understanding scripture. He commends a “willingness to let the text be whatever it is and not to sub-ordinate it to “presuppositionalism”.

So easily said and so human to miss this. It’s like the theological version of the Serenity Prayer… (the whole thing, not just the first two lines… finding hardships as the pathway to peace… taking this world as it is and not as I would have it…) Here is wisdom.