Tag Archives: Disagreement

What kind of discussion is this?

Up front

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I picked up and modified this helpful rubric:

  1. Fight for what is right (truth).
  2. Argue for what will work (tactics).
  3. Keep quiet about everything else (preference).

Fight for the God-given biblical principles, argue for how to put them into practice, and just leave all the personality or preference issues up to each person to work out for themselves. I can hesitate on preference—in a meeting, I can even back down on my view of tactics—but I must never back down on truth. (more…)

Matters of indifference?

Life

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When Christians disagree, often it is helpful to sort the important from the unimportant, the essential from the indifferent. But what criteria should we use to do this? Mark Thompson investigates.

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Fight the good fight (part 1): A time to break down and a time to build up

Life, Sola Panel

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Are Christians these days too critical of each other, too ready to oppose and too ready to be negative? You could certainly find plenty of evidence to support this claim. Then again, are Christians these days so polite, inoffensive and unwilling to stand for the truth, they end up being nicer than Jesus? A fair-sized dossier could be assembled in support of this contention as well. So which is it be, nasty or nice?

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I’d like an argument, please

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As moral debates of all kinds rage in our community, Christians feel the need to speak out. The trouble is, whenever we make strong moral statements, we end up sounding like were defending morality rather than preaching the gospel. How do we argue for Christian morality in a post-Christian society? (more…)