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The use of metaphors and hyperbole are edifying when applied in a devotional setting, their application in that context is usually without controversy and enjoyed by all. But when you are confronting a person and his teachings a much more measured approach must be implimented or you allow your words and by connection you yourself to become part of the presentation.

When you are using the Word to edify you can cull out a verse and build upon it without breaking new doctrinal ground, but when quoting someone we must be very careful in isolating a quote as a proof text. It can lend itself easily to misrepresentation. That is why we must do dispassionate and careful studies about anyone with whom we disagree and present fairly what he is saying/teaching because we as believers should be clear and fair as well as strong. People like Ken are strong, invective, and with the hyperbole and conclusion laden posts that are mostly without organized evidence they have made themselves the issue and failed miserably in projecting what they claim is their ministry, exposing error.

Wrapped in the cloak of Reformation language they have rebuffed many serious students of the Word, even among those who would agree, because of their caustic and self righteous tone. When the issues are of such supreme importance should we not endeavor to remove our own emotions and manipulative wording so as to provide the most accurate representation of the truth about people’s positions? Yes, we should, but it is very difficult because we as believers are so given to the world’s way of “talk show” discourse.

We can do better.