Good-by,
Phil Donahue
We will miss your arrogance.
You were pretty good at turning your self-righteous guns on Christians,
Muslims, Jews and others: "They
have a book. They know what is right
and wrong; hence, they are better than
you," you loved to pontificate.
But it is almost impossible for a man to see his own
arrogance. You, of course, knew what
was right and wrong, not from a book, but from your superior wisdom and
autonomy. You knew what "everybody
knows," or at least should know, and would know, if they had been content
to learn at your feet!
This arrogance is in the warp and woof of human nature, and none
of us is free from its effects. There
is one glorious doctrine of Scripture which militates against the natural
arrogance of man. Predestination is
that doctrine, and is the only antidote for self-righteousness.
In the end the arrogance did you in. People got tired of the self-righteous moralizing, especially as
the morals of society crumbled around them.
"God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the
things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are
despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought
things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence" (I Cor. 1:27-29).
Pastor C. W.
Powell
Trinity
Covenant RCUS
Colorado
Springs, CO