So, are you a critic? Or are you more than a critic. Tom Pryde wrote an excellent piece in which he explores how critics often do noone any good. They just create a “culture of criticism”. He challenges us to do more than just critique, but to reform and act.
As a “reforming” blogger myself, I admit it is very easy to criticize and very hard to act and reform. It can be fun to argue and easy to ignore or even despise/belittle opponents, but very hard to build and help people. So I needed this fresh reminder to have a Christian attitude when blogging.
Many of my readers are those who see things that need fixing in fundamentalism. I challenge you to read Tom’s post and pick up a hammer rather than just telling all the foreman what to do. This is a post worth marking well.
So here is the link to Tom’s post: “NeoFundamentalist, Remonstrans, and the Culture of Criticism“. And to get you more excited about it, let me post Seeker’s 6 point synthesis of Tom’s post. (You’ll want to read Seeker’s post too as it adds to Tom’s.)
- [Don’t assume] an incredulous posture.
- Constructive criticism comes alongside, [destructive criticism] aims to alienate.
- Being critical attracts mostly embittered, critical people.
- Be an example and a reformer, not a critic.
- How should we handle our critics?
- We must have a bias for action, not for criticism.
[words in brackets above are my slight edits to Seeker’s points]
Thanks for the mention.
Thank you, for the recent link, too!
Blessings in Christ,
Bob Hayton