The Real Problem

“When we are confronted with worship services conducted by Kuba the Clown, and we marvel at the flag drill team over by the baptistry, we are tempted to attack the weirdness, instead of the doctrinal confusion which preceded it and produced it. That preceding foolishness is always an abandonment, diminution, or alteration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That is always the real problem. If a friend decided to abandon his wife in order to run off with another woman, it would hardly be a relevant rebuke for me to point out that his girlfriend wears too much lipstick and has a funny laugh. That is not his problem” (Mother Kirk, p. 125).