It is no surprise when preachers like Minister Allen Wicks eschew the very vices they do not personally practice. The travesty of propagating such mean-spirited finger-pointing among Christians is that it distracts us from displaying the real emblem of our identity: “They shall know we are Christians by our love.” I wish to remind Wicks and his followers how harshly Jimmy Swaggart publicly castigated Jim Bakker before Swaggart’s own indiscretions became known. May the Spirit of Christ create in each of us the will and the way to love others more and judge others less.
Bernadette Randle, Minister of Music
Third Presbyterian Church
St. Louis