{"id":66191,"date":"2023-07-17T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66191"},"modified":"2023-10-18T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:55:39","slug":"stop-calling-them-names-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66191","title":{"rendered":"Stop Calling Them Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the biggest \u201cAha!\u201d moments in my life involve John Piper. One of the most important came in June of 2008. Barely 21 years old, I had just moved to seminary, and I was pretty adept at looking down my nose at churches that didn\u2019t practice Christ-centered preaching as I defined it. I was quick to disparage anyone to my theological right as a \u201cfundamentalist\u201d or \u201clegalist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then I read John Piper\u2019s \u201c20 Reasons I Don\u2019t Take Potshots at Fundamentalists<\/a>,\u201d in which he lists specific reasons for why he\u2019s grateful for a tribe not his own. Here was one of my heroes joyfully pointing out evidences of grace in actual Fundamentalists.<\/p>\n

Now, years later, I recognize that this type of warm, large-hearted thankfulness for fellow Christians of a different stripe is a dominant characteristic of the godliest people I know.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Bible teaches us to directly confront theological error. It even has a category for using harsh speech with wolves who pervert a church\u2019s fidelity or lead people into eternal destruction (cf. Acts\u00a013:8\u201311). But neither should Christians engage in the worldly practice of name-calling or employing theological slurs, especially when speaking of brothers and sisters in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re prone to use name-calling with theological opponents, consider three passages in Scripture and how they address our unhealthy culture in evangelicalism of pejorative labeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66193,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66191\/revisions\/66193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}