Humility

Humility

Some weeks back I noted a leading emergent webpage which spends it's time telling the reader how important and radical (in the Starbucks latte drinking sense of the word....) the particular person who writes on it is.  I raised the question of how, in the marketplace of ideas, Christians can promote the good and the true without promoting themselves.  In this context, I'm struck by the following comment from good old P T Forsyth, scarcely a conservative evangelical but a whole lot wiser than the emergent person on said website, and any who are tempted to think too highly of themselves, whatever their theological conviction: