Under the post, "Rachel Miller's straw men...," one reader wrote:
There is simply no room for error in your teaching.
My response:
This couldn't be further from the truth. Is there any pastor who goes a month, week, or day without having the Holy Spirit remind him of His warning:
Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. (James 3:1, 2)
"For we all stumble in many ways." Pastors know this is true of us in what we write online and in books, what we preach and teach, how we speak and are silent in session meetings and pastoral counseling, at home and school, in the car on the way to church Sunday morning, etc. We see our stumbles in many ways, and we tell our congregations about them. We apologize after session meetings for our anger or passive-aggressiveness. We all stumble; we all sin in many ways.
This should satisfy you that you are wrong, but sadly, I doubt it. Why not?
Because what people really want is not for us to admit we have error in our teaching where that error truly exists, but where it doesn't exist. In other words, those who accuse us of refusing to admit error in our teaching won't agree we've admitted error in our teaching until we admit that we have sinned against half the human race by teaching God's Creation Order—that is the only place where our admission of error would ever count...