Tullian Tchividjian: Allow Your Critics to Teach You | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

Tullian Tchividjian: Allow Your Critics to Teach You Christianity Today A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction:

"Have you talked with your grandfather about this conflict? What would Billy Graham say about this?
I have talked to him about it on numerous occasions. His encouragement to me is simply, 'By God's grace, I've weathered many storms just like this, and if you submit to what God is trying to teach you, he will make you wise and humble and useful.'
In other words, don't become proud and self-righteous. Be teachable. And God will make you useful.
Don't become bitter, in other words. Allow even your most vocal critics, who may criticize you unjustifiably, to become tools in God's hands to teach you something. Emerge from this more of a gospel man, more of a God-centered man."

I love the response his grandfather, none other than Billy Graham, gives. "...submit to what God is trying to teach you, he will make you wise and humble and useful."

What great council! Submit to God!

Not, "I'll get some people together who will fight for you and we'll show those rebels, who's really in charge." No, he just gives the council that he has practices his entire life. Submit!

Thank God for Billy Graham