bethany

stumbled across this blog in a random internet search…
i’m disheartened by all of the hatred and anger being displayed by fellow believers. yes, john piper is not perfect, he doesn’t have perfect answers and will never perfectly satisfy or do justice to every question that one may have. however, tearing him down, being angry and bitter at him, and picking everything he’s done apart won’t prevent women from being abused. regardless of differences you may have in theology, he will one day (with us) be worshipping at the feet of our precious Christ with the many people’s from every tribe, tongue, and nation that have been saved through christians affected by his preaching. instead of spreading a passion to hate a human, why don’t we invest spreading a passion for Christ among the world? that’s what transforms hearts and lives; that’s what humbles a lost, bitter, hurting, abusive husband. these rants won’t…

i hardly ever reply to blog posts like this, but because of the subject and the response, i thought i might say something. tear me apart as you wish, but i know of a more excellent way:
“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…”
1 corinthians 13:1-8a

you can disagree with piper. but as christians, as ones who were dead and have now been given life through the undeserving sacrifice of Christ, you must forgive and move on regardless of another’s faults or failed forgiveness.