Learning from the Mistakes of Others

Are you familiar with the people of Westboro Baptist Church?

Kevin DeYoung explains:

Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is well known for protesting funerals, desecrating American flags, and promoting its signature message that “God Hates Fags.”

He asks:

But might there be something conservative evangelicals can learn from Westboro? Not any positive lessons mind you, but anything we can glean from their monumentally misguided example?

He answers:

1. Any truth promoted to the exclusion of other truths can become an untruth.

2. It matters how we’re heard.

3. We must refuse to play into the binary stereotype which says the opposite of unconditional affirmation is fuming hatred.

Go here for his elaboration on each point.