I think it is like the golf swing analogy, where we cannot hit a good golf ball by constantly over-analyzing our swing. Just be yourself, be self-aware and live your life.

I think it is far more dangerous to constantly think about how to give God glory. Be a friend to sinners and God will certainly be glorified.

Those who demand “Give glory to God” sound like the self-glorifying Pharisees when they interviewed the blind man Jesus healed.

There is surely an element of truth to this because of our own deceitful hearts (Jer 17:9), where even our very best righteous deeds are filthy (Isa 64:6).

So, how do we post stuff, and overcome the ever present temptation and our own inner default to draw attention to ourselves (incurvatus in se), so that we truly give God the glory?

Personally, I don’t buy such “guilt-tripping” insinuations that does no one any good. It is far better to take responsibility for our errors, rather than to take credit for our good. No Christian can ever claim the latter because all good comes ultimately from God, and NOT from the “sacrificial Bible teacher.”

But neither am I trying to influence people. Frankly speaking, if UBF people want to submit to the life-time authority of a UBF shepherd, so be it. If they want to deny the abuse and praise God, so be it.

I am “holding up a stop sign” to invoke discussions and publicly documenting “the other side” that UBF had denied for decades. What purpose does that serve? I don’t know fully, but I am convinced I must do it. In 2019 or so there will be another round of people who will need some reference points to make sense of their past choices.

I was just thinking that the re-titling of your blog might not be the optimal way to win friends or influence people, according to Dale Carnegie: http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034

Perhaps, you are not trying to win friends, but you are trying to influence people, and I was just wondering if that might be a prudent way to do so. Just some thoughts, that’s all.

Since I recently re-titled my blog “a public criticism of University Bible Fellowship”, your point about criticizing other ministries causes me to ponder. I’ve decided to keep my title for now, however, and don’t mind being called a critic of UBF because my hope is not to destroy the ministry but to call attention to unaddressed problems.

I do find a narcissistic tendency in me to glorify myself. I find that public discussion is one helpful way to remove such tendencies (though I suppose blogging may have the opposite affect at times). But mainly I find that publicly sharing my thoughts allows my thoughts to be challenged in ways they never could be when I keep them to myself or only share them with people who agree with me. I appreciate ubfriends because it has helped me to see many different opinions and we’ve sharpened each other.

Your thoughts above and the articles in your links show me the importance of balance. Thanks again for keeping the discussion going.