Source: Verum Serum

Comments: John takes on the feeding frenzy in the watchblogosphere which seeks to make Ted Haggard’s failing into a poster child for bad theology.  Through some examination of scripture and noting some more mature responses, John (once again) puts Ken, Ingrid and company into place.
Memorable Quotes:

For example, Ingrid at Slice of Laodicea wrote an article about the scandal which not surprisingly condemns pretty much every living evangelical. She wrote:

Evangelicalism is where medieval Roman Catholicism was just before that portentous day when Dr. Luther pounded his Theses to the castle church door at Wittenburg.

Ingrid’s fellow Slice author Ken Silva promoted a post by The Reformed Gadfly which ends:

Stuff like this can only happen because contemporary Christianity is rotten to the core.

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Tim Challies, who is as reformed as anyone and with whom I’ve disagreed on occasion, has an excellent post which doesn’t devolve into the “I told you so!” mold. On the contrary, he takes on some of the other bloggers mentioned above.

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Jesus was pretty clear about the response we should have to this sort of sin. When the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of adultery before him, he turned the question around on them. In essence what he said was: Look at yourself. He said much the same thing in a parable about a Pharisee who prayed “God, I thank you that I am not like other men…” The pharisees’ eye is always on someone else, never on himself.

So I’d like to suggest that the Haggard mess provides us with an interesting insight into where some people stand. Bloggers whose response to Ted Haggard is to look for the rot in someone else (all evangelicals, all mega-church pastors, etc.) have missed the point. Look at yourself. And if, after doing so, you’re still eager to condemn someone, well…you’re either a saint or liar. And there are very few saints.

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