One aims to make as little splash as possible while ensuring every motion of the descent is judged to be technically correct. The other aims to hit the deck in as splayed a fashion as possible while ensuring the opponent is judged to be technically incorrect.
You're right though, both are as annoying as each other.
Holiness people, with an overgrown fear of modernism, tended to lose their social consciences. They should have know better - the opposite of personal gospel is not social gospel; it is impersonal gospel. Modernists, with an overgrown fear of holiness people tended to lose their hearts for evangelism. They should have know better – the opposite of social gospel is not personal gospel; it is antisocial gospel. Kagawa was right. You cannot have one without the other.
Robert Tuttle Junior on Toyohiko Kagawa, the mid 20thC evangelist and social activist.
I work at Northern Baptist College which is part of The Partnership for Theological Education in Manchester based at Luther King House. My areas of interest are mission and western culture, preaching and contemporary evangelicalism.
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One aims to make as little splash as possible while ensuring every motion of the descent is judged to be technically correct. The other aims to hit the deck in as splayed a fashion as possible while ensuring the opponent is judged to be technically incorrect.
You're right though, both are as annoying as each other.
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