Yea....
and especially poor musicians.
Mike, I think I agree with every (serious) sentence you wrote there. I agree that mercy ministries are an inescapable implication of the gospel---I'd even say a "sign." I agree that our hearts tend toward the self, and that is to be resisted. I agree that a renewed emphasis on social ministry in Reformed circles is probably a good thing, and I agree that an outward focus is to be strived for.
The only thing I want to re-emphasize---and the whole reason I've been pressing on the brakes a bit in this conversation---is that the danger of emphasizing social ministry to the point that it eclipses everything else is not just a theoretical one, even in the present. I'm all in favor of renewing our emphasis on social ministry, but we should be careful not to forget that Christians have already messed this up more than once.
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