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Craig Blomberg on Pat Robertson’s recent comment on Haiti:

… One of the most discouraging things about high-profile individuals whose misguided views on disasters are widely cited is the scorn that skeptics and critics subsequently unleash with renewed vigor against Christians more generally. If one’s goal really is for the lost to repent, this kind of pontification after a disaster proves dramatically counterproductive.

What Robertson needs to do, according to Jesus—what we all need to do—is take personal stock of our own lives, not those of anyone else, and ask what we need to repent of. Are we taking for granted that we have tomorrow to make amends, when we really know we can’t know that for sure?

[link: Denver Seminary]

See also Donald Miller’s remarks.

For those of you who pray, please take a moment and remember those in Haiti. Hundreds of thousands are likely dead and millions need emergency aid, after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake.

For Canadians, Worldvision and Red Cross are both accepting online donations for emergency relief work:

1. WorldVision
2. Red Cross