I’d like to point out Collin Hansen’s blind spots – er, excuse me, Collin Hansen’s Blind Spots. An excerpt runs on TGC this morning, and it’s well worth your attention:

The fundamentalist/modernist war left a legacy whereby, in some churches, you’re branded a liberal heretic if you take away their hymnals. And in other churches a minister will sooner marry a man and his avatar than allow you to cite Ephesians 5 at a wedding.

Collin urges us to become aware of our particular gifts and areas where we need to grow in being simultaneously courageous, compassionate and commissioned. And this process is primarily social rather than individual. We must recognize our natural tendency to push other Christians away because their gifts and areas of need in this area don’t match ours; if we learn to embrace one another instead, we will not only add strength to the church by meeting one another’s needs, we will ourselves grow in the areas where we need to. We need each other.

It’s a short, smart, practical book. Check it out.