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That’s the sticker they robotically glue on the inside flyleaf of every book you buy at the BJU Campus Store. Even the Bibles!<\/p>\n

That’s their litigious-ish way of washing their hands of your presumed offense at their dangerously idea-laden books.<\/p>\n

So this is mine.<\/p>\n

I’ve had another project<\/a> brewing for some time. A project whose research got me so blue last May that I had to stop reading. I’m ready to start up again. And this is my sticker:<\/p>\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>: I’m not talking about you. No, really. I’m not.<\/p>\n

I’m talking about us<\/em>. Which does include you. And me. And millions of other people who fall under the umbrella of Evangelicalism — from fundies to Pentecostals, from Calvinists to Arminians, from soul-patch-wearing-and-coffee-drinking types to their culotte-donning opposites.<\/p>\n

But if you think I have you <\/em>and yours in mind, you’re incorrect. I don’t. So forget the nitty-gritty you <\/em>and think about the more abstract-and-one-contemporary-sliver-of-the-invisible-Church us<\/em>. Or stop reading. That’s always an option.<\/p>\n

In fact, this whole project could fall under the heading of “It’s Not About You.” So that we Evangelicals get so easily offended at point-blank critique or that we can think of one exception to the general rule or that we can turn every critique into a tu quoque fallacy . . . well, that is really proof of the problem.<\/p>\n

But I’ll save that more for a later post.<\/p>\n

Consider yourself warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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