Incendiary Comment for the Day

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 I just posted an installment in a study of Hebrews. Now I revert to snark. 

Becki Falwell, who has spent the last several years telling us how to live, admits to an affair. Well, thank you for that. 

I find the more people feel they can advise the rest of us, the more skeletons they have to hide. 

The Bible has a bit to say about this. 

Anyway, evangelicalism is a big tent. It includes the Trump-kissers, and the Trump-skeptics, and the Trump-horrified, and the Trump "Who's that?" It includes Robert Jeffress and Franklin Graham and the Corrie Ten Booms and the Tim Kellers and the laborers for Compassion International and those fighting human trafficking and the faithful bivocational pastors of small churches. It includes people with some pretty bad racist tendencies and people who give their lives to cross-cultural and cross-racial ministry. 

Unfortunately, it includes high-profile people like the Falwells whom the media try to use to give the Church and Jesus Himself a black eye. 

Fortunately, they can't give Jesus a black eye, and the gates of Hell won't prevail against His true church. But right now, the label has a massive public relations program. The brand is suffering.  How do we respond?

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