I write to encourage pastors, particularly those weary or beaten down, those needing to be reminded of the value of what they do regardless of the unrelenting expectations of modern church culture. 

As pastors we fill a prophetic role. What to speak, how to speak it, and when, are questions that concern us all. 

It seems, though, we live in an age when calling for something as basic as love for neighbor will get one tossed in a cistern. 

You may not agree with all I say in this episode. I know that. But that is be expected in conversation around a table. So I’m grateful that you listen.

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EPISODE NOTES

Notes and resources relevant to this episode:

Elizabeth Whitley, Plain Mr. Knox, (London, England: Skeffington & Son, Ltd., 1960), p. 17.

There is much to admire and even emulate about Knox. Being dour, that is “relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance,” should not be one of them. Many, I fear, confuse being disagreeable with being courageous. That is not what we are after.

Whitley, p. 51.

Whitley, p. 63.

Whitley, p. 64, 65

I urge any who have heard her message criticized but who have not heard her message to take the fifteen minutes necessary to listen to it. Many of the inflammatory responses do not, in my opinion, adequately represent her tone and spirit.

It’s worth noting that there is no reference to Christ’s embodiment of these virtues, nor of the cross. These are grave omissions. But their absence does not negate the validity of her fundamental claims.

So asserts Denny Burk of the “Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.” As with his previous criticisms of author Aimee Byrd, he seems unwilling to fairly represent Rev. Budde’s comments or to directly engage them, no doubt because she is a woman.

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