DEE, God bless her little pea-pickin' heart, has decided there must be more to life than writing articles criticizing the never ending sinfulness of those who leads churches and those who attend churches. [ SURPRISE - sinners attend church; leaders are also sinners - unless you're Wade Burleson - dryly ]
So she's pushing others to take up the burden of criticizing sinners by establishing their own blogs.
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SERIOUSLY; Dee is a remarkable woman. Her [ now ] one woman blog has a huge following; probably thousands of readers a day. I felt happy if I got 30 readers a day.
She has highlighted some leaders who have done great evil.
SADLY, she could never seem to tell the difference between John Piper and Tullian Tchividjian.
John Piper is great and Godly man - who's conservative theology you might disagree with but who's personal life has been exemplary.
Tullian cheated on his wife and wants back in the ministry.
Dee probably wrote 100 posts assailing John Piper and maybe 5 about Tullian.
Dee has trouble knowing who the good guys are because the good guys are not feminists - they are Biblicists.
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Anyhow, Dee would like a little more of her life; other posts have suggested she and her husband would like to retire and do other things than just work. NOBODY has ever worked harder at a blog than Dee.
It is depressing if your spend your life writing posts critical of others as you try to eradicate sin in the church. It ain't gonna happen.
Secondly, there are SO VERY MANY REAL VICTIMS in the world. You can't write about them all. They too will suck the life out of you if you allow it. Dee has to be emotionally, psychologically and physically exhausted.
She has been the Don Quixote of "discernment" blogs.
But at the end of the day, a blog is just a blog.
Dee, hope you and Jim travel - enjoy meeting others and find peace among the chaos.
SINCERELY
Seneca Griggs.
Dissecting Wartburgwatch and I-Monk which presents themselves as blogs dissecting Christian trends but dissect, mostly, conservative Evangelicals who have an historic orthodox view of Scripture. Not a lot of happy commenters seen on those blogs.
Seneca, your life's work is done!!
ReplyDeleteI have always had mixed feelings about TWW. The two undoubtedly were right to unconver church malfeasance, and if the leadership had been doing its job properly this ought not to have been necessary.
But as you have often commented there was a drift to the left, towards egalitarianism, the danger of which is it becomes that backdoor out of the faith, quite apart from being imo disobedience to scripture. The latter is hardly unimportant as TWW liked to criticise conservative evangelicals for their disobedience in not protecting the abused.
Then of course there was the legendary nastiness and bitterness of the commentariat. To what extent can you hold the blog administrators for this if they ostensibly are trying to allow genuine free speech? I can only speak for myself, but I believe the Lord convicted me to stop reading the blog because of the negative effect it can have on you. In fact I started to get like some of the commenters - cynical. Many on this type of blog are messed up people who don't want to get sorted out, and reinforce each others' misery and bitterness.
I have long since come to the conclusion that the internet can be a useful tool for exposing and discussing deception in Christian circles, but it is no substitute for contact with real people who can call you to account for your own sin and actually support you in dealing with bad church experiences,
You could either retire now, or keep an eye on any successor blogs to TWW.
Ken B
PS Thanks for my few seconds of fame earlier on on this blog. :-)
I'm not sure Dee is going to follow through with this. Going by the output in December and continuing into this year it's business as usual!
ReplyDeleteYou may have to postpone your retirement after all.
Ken B