"We Deserve Our Troubles, But He Deserves NONE..."

In our previous article we learned that after eight years of controversy Steve Pettit Resigned as President of Bob Jones University. There is any number of issues and factors we can debate over what lead BJU to the place it is today and an uncertain future. In upcoming articles we will discuss some of these things.

Today let's look at what is transpiring in the moment.  Let's consider what it means for the cause of Christ. I can find no better reflection than what follows.

One friend of the university, who prefers anonymity, shared this insight.

"I feel grieved. Grieved at the looming prospect—if not likelihood—that the school has essentially no future at this point (the Lord knows!). And grieved, most of all, that I hardly see how there can be any avoiding of the Lord’s name being dragged through the mud over this leadership meltdown. We deserve our troubles, but He deserves NONE of the discredit that we are bringing upon Him. I wish we could just leave His name out of it and absorb all the misery ourselves. But it just doesn’t work that way; in His grace He has placed His name upon us, knowing full well how badly we would besmirch it—and how often! That is amazing grace indeed, to be overjoyed in! But not to be presumed upon remorselessly when we fail it so badly."

It is our hope that all parties going forward will, before uttering any words or take any action, consider how what they say or do will reflect on the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Will our words and actions bring honor or reproach to the name of the Lord?

LM

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