I’ve never been much interested in Al Mohler. I’ve tried reading him before and listened to his radio program for a while and wasn’t really impressed with either one. There’s something about most Southern Baptists that strikes me as somehow foreign – like they’re a sub-culture in America.
I guess they are…
So it was a bit of a surprise to find myself quite interested in Mohler’s chapter in Sex and the Supremacy of Christ called “Homosexual Marriage as a Challenge to the Church: Biblical and Cultural Reflections.” In that chapter he says this:
“As Christians, we are charged with the difficult task of compassionate truth-telling… Compassionate truth-telling requires the church to speak from its deepest convictions while demonstrating the love of Christ – speaking truth that will be heard as a hard message while demonstrating the love of Christ through the very act of telling the truth.
Compassionate truth-telling means, not only the accurate presentation of biblical truth, but the prayerful and urgent hope that the individuals to whom we speak will be transformed by that truth and respond to the grace of God in Jesus Christ.”
- Albert Mohler in Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (p. 108)
I feel the same way about Russel Moore. To look at him and listen to him all I hear is suit-and-tie Southern Baptist, but when I read some of the things he writes (like “Jesus Has AIDS” for example), my mind’s eye sees a more radical man.
Lesson learned: Don’t judge a book by its cover; don’t judge a man by his suit.
