Identification by Association

            Several years ago I was informed, after preaching in a local church in California, that a couple from the local nudist colony had come to hear me preach. While present, the man asked the pastor if he would come to their nudist colony to preach. The pastor asked me, “Should I go? Those people need to hear the gospel, too. Don’t they?” I said to my friend, “The only reason they want you to come preach is so that they can identify you with them. Were you to go there, your presence would be seen as your implied approval of their evil.”

            Some men foolishly engage in religious activity, preaching with men they know to be evil, justifying their actions by saying, “I’ll go anywhere to preach the gospel.” But constant association with known evil is willing identification with and approval of the evil.

Don Fortner

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