All the while I believe that we are to defend our beliefs with words and attitudes that follow the counsels of the Lord Jesus, I also realize that we still are obliged to defend our faith when it’s being attacked.
But there also comes a time when we admit—not defeat—but futility, and walk away because it is the only intelligent recourse. Otherwise, we run the risk of becoming just like what we ourselves do not like in others.
BecomING?
. . . I think that happened about 1600 years ago at the beginning of the Institution.