When sharing any information there is always the risk that you'll be misunderstood. It is a risk worth taking. Hopefully your sharing will make someone seek to clarify through further questions and research on their part [that is always a goal of mine]. Greg Koukl of STR.org refers to this as putting "a stone in their shoe."
Randy Alcorn encourages me to be clear - but not seek to qualify every statement I make.
Question by CJ Mahaney to Randy Alcorn:
What single piece of counsel (or constructive criticism) has most improved your preaching?
“It is impossible to make a balanced statement.”
You can spend all day qualifying what you’re saying and removing the punch from it. Jesus made many statements that have to be clarified by others (e.g. plucking out your eye and cutting off your hand, and hating your family). But it is a mistake to strip such statements of their power by immediately modifying them and saying what they don’t mean instead of what they do. I think we are free to make prophetic statements without always qualifying them.
See the full post here: Meet Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn encourages me to be clear - but not seek to qualify every statement I make.
Question by CJ Mahaney to Randy Alcorn:
What single piece of counsel (or constructive criticism) has most improved your preaching?
“It is impossible to make a balanced statement.”
You can spend all day qualifying what you’re saying and removing the punch from it. Jesus made many statements that have to be clarified by others (e.g. plucking out your eye and cutting off your hand, and hating your family). But it is a mistake to strip such statements of their power by immediately modifying them and saying what they don’t mean instead of what they do. I think we are free to make prophetic statements without always qualifying them.
See the full post here: Meet Randy Alcorn
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