If we practice latitudinarianism either individually or corporately in an age like our own, we have removed our credibility before the non-Christian, post-Christian relativistic, skeptical, lost world.
If you think that those who have rejected the plastic culture and are sick of hypocrisy are going to be impressed when you talk about truth and at the same time practice untruth, you are wrong. They will never listen. You have cut the ground from under yourself. We live in a generation that does not believe that such a thing as truth is possible, and if you practice untruth while talking about truth, the real thinkers will just say, ‘Garbage!’ ~ Francis Schaeffer
In the past few days both Norm Geisler and Doug Wilson have come to Paige Patterson’s defense. In one sense, all that needs to be said was said by Francis Schaeffer nearly 50 years ago when he wrote The Church at the End of the 20th Century, which is where the quote above comes from.
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