The Ambassadorship of All Believers
Robert Seiple Monday, 1 September 2003
Contemporary Christianity has been earnest, perhaps to a fault, in teaching that our motives must be pure. Of course they must—a holy God expects no less. But it is a mistake to assume that the methodologies we use to act on right motivations need only exhibit guileless transparency, with no regard for context or consequence. In our engagement of God's complex world, it is not enough to claim good intentions (however sincerely) without also exercising strategic common sense when deciding when, where, and how to act on those intentions.
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