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VOICES | Issue: "Louisiana's Buy-You-Election" May 17, 1997

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Spring Draining
April 12, 1997

Ideas have consequences

As a professional church musician who just ended a 7-1/2 year stint in a mainline denomination, I can tell you that the excuses and accusations you're getting from Zondervan ("The battle for the Bible," April 19) are typical of what happens when you blow the whistle on liberal theology in the making. Ideas have consequences. What people believe affects how they act. If there is no reverent fear about the Word of God at Zondervan, there won't be any respect for the words of men to each other, either-as you've seen. - Linda Simms, Oxford, Conn.

What's so difficult?

I for one welcome the publication of the Inclusive Language Edition of the NIV. John Stott expressed the same thought on the cover of the New Testament, published by Hodder and Stoughton, which I am pleased to own. I am included in this Bible. I am not included when the church sings "Rise Up O Men of God." Why is that so hard for men to understand? Our language has moved beyond their narrow point of view. - Sara Anne Robertson, Wheaton, Ill.

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