The internet's a blessing, we all know,
A way to publish and let our thoughts flow,
But oh how it's revealed our hearts so black and stony,
As believers skewer each other, all too often lonely.
We sit behind screens, anonymous and free,
To attack and belittle, with cruelty and glee,
But we forget on the other end is a man,
A sinner like us, blood-bought by God's own hand.
So let us think before we type and send,
Ask ourselves why, and if it's necessary to defend,
Is there a better way to get our point across,
Without hurting others and causing needless loss?
Let's attack concepts, not men, with love and care,
Preach the truth, and let love and kindness be our share,
For others will know us by how we love, not how we win,
In Facebook debates, where hatred and division begin.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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