Take Your Pick

We’re not just a bumbling bunch of preachers who can’t talk and all we’re doing is baptizing babies. I deal with the White House. I deal with Tony Blair. I deal with presidents around this world. I pastor a multimillion-dollar congregation.

--'Bishop' Eddie Long, Christian preacher, describing his ministry to a newspaper in 2005

My speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

--the Apostle Paul, Christian preacher, describing his ministry in 1 Corinthians 2
Dane Ortlund

Sorry Rules

Sorry Rules

Don’t say “I’m sorry” if you don’t believe you’ve done anything wrong.

Don’t say “I’m sorry” if you think you can justify what you have done.
Don’t say “I’m sorry” if you regret the consequences, but not the action.
Don’t say “I’m sorry” unless you fully intend never to do it again.

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

—2 Corinthians 7:9–10

 The Thirsty Theologian