My Journal

I didn't go. But I watched the 2 hour show online, hosted by Martin Bashir.

I find the Kellers interview to be particularly interesting, unfortunately.

Cathy Keller apologized to Bashir for thinking he was trying to scoop a news when they first met. Her attempt to show genuine public apology seemed a bit - late.

Timothy Keller admitted that he was going to focus on building leaders. I remember David Wilkerson was doing the same thing, then he got into a fatal car accident.

I think it is a dangerous thought, to think oneself a leader to a point that one's main ministry is to produce more leaders. A serious question can be asked: How are you going to treat those new leaders, who are not of your "group", but have some fellowship with some of your "group". You may want to think you are training them, but they may think that they have been trained more elsewhere. I am aware that the usual solution to this is simply IGNORE THEM! Especially they don't behave like you trained them. But because the incentive is that they should be grateful to you for having the opportunity to be involved with your program, you have an excuse for ignoring them.

知識不等於信仰，我們的信仰絕不能只停留在知識。我們永遠必須將生命完全仰賴、交託給耶穌基督，惟獨靠祂的恩典、靠祂賞賜的信心、靠祂作惟一的中保，我們才真正是基督的門徒。⎯⎯⎯⎯韋黛安博士（Dr. Diane M. Poythress）

via - 台北歸正福音講壇

I spoke of this long ago and I remember a church elder rejected it. She said that knowledge is faith, or else it's not knowledge. I observed her. She kept lots of books, but knows little of them, that's even a fake love of knowledge. No, I wouldn't say she's non-Christian. But her poorly built house will be tested and she would greatly be embarrassed should she maintain her stubbornness.

Thomas Ladenburg in his Digital History (American History) online made excellent illustration and comparison between the two African American giants. (Unit 11, Chapter 6)

I had to look this up when a fellow in my Chinese Philosophy class rebutted (shallowly) a lady's comment that Malcolm X was violent. I was also under the same impression about Malcolm Little X as the black lady, and still believe so after further research.

Simply put, I admire Martin Luther King Jr. but not Malcolm X, despite their upbringings which no doubt shaped their characters. King fought for equality, praying for harmony between both sides. Malcolm X's sense of justice is still trapped in segregation - If they can do this, so can we! There is no hope for peace between the two in X's philosophy. He talked about segregated rights so much that any motion of peaceful reconciliation from his mouth is merely rhetoric. X may not have done violence, but he preached with a violent, angry heart; While King preached with love.