A couple of weeks ago, WORLD published an Opinion piece entitled “Why we need a Joshua Harris rule: How about a moratorium on Christian self-help books from authors under age 40?”
You can read it here, but the title just might say it all.
Importantly, the authors recognize a real problem. And they offer a solution.
Unfortunately, both are grossly oversimplified:
The problem – by locating it primarily with the influencer, with little reference to the responsibility of the influenced.
And the solution – by advocating the removal of the influencer rather than the adjudication of truth, a classic case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Part 1: Joshua Harris is not the problem. (We are.)
My candid contention is this: Joshua Harris is not the problem. We are. We don’t need a Joshua Harris rule. We need Jesus, His Word, and to be more discerning about all manner of Christian media.
Put bluntly, we have a propensity to make gods out of people and scripture out of their books and, in the worst cases, crucify them when they don’t turn out to be Jesus and their books the Words of life.
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