As Paul Would Have SaidPosted on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 by Douglas Wilson - 2 comments Sharing Options “He that cannot be safely imitated ought not to be tolerated in the pulpit” (Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World, p. 40).
Well, that would rule out everybody but Jesus.
Even imperfection can still be worthy of imitation, if it draws us closer to Christ than we were. Paul said, “be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” (1Cor 11:1), even though he knew he fell short.