Distinctions,Apostles, Refugees

Doug has caught my attention with this type of topic. His distinction resonates with the Word. I am just not used to thinking in these terms.


Learning the Tune From Doug Wilson, Blog and mablog

....I have before made the distinction between apostles of the world and refugees from the world. The latter can be pretty raggety sometimes, and they frequently spout the jargon that they learned in their secularist catechism classes, taught to them by the apostles of the world. What else would they do? That doesn't keep them from being refugees. And sometimes a leader among the secularist apostles is fighting with might and main against an internal attraction to Christ, one that no one else knows about. When Saul was converted, only Barnabas thought that was even a possibility. This simply means that is sometimes difficult to distinguish apostles and refugees. Nevertheless, the distinction is essential, and should be present in everything we do. Fight the apostles with a clean conscience, and accept the refugees with open arms....