Convicting

From today's Breakpoint by Chuck Colson.

"You see, Elmer is the sort of figure that inspires the Church, or should inspire the Church, to take a long, hard look at ourselves. I am not just talking now in terms of financial scandals or high-profile cases of adultery or child abuse. I am talking about the subtler temptations, without which none of those bigger scandals would have taken place. For instance, the temptation to think more of ourselves when we are celebrated, or to use God to further our own agenda, or to preach one thing and do another, or to mistake our emotions for the voice of God, or to fall for a compelling but false message because it is expressed in Christian-sounding jargon."