Philosopher Os Guinness. But first,

When many priests and professors of religion in our day don’t teach and analyze the times in the light of the Gospel, and instead go off on any number of niche, sometimes eccentric, fashionable, theological tangents Sunday after Sunday, well then the very rocks cry out.

St. Paul says, Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. ¹⁶ The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel; ¹⁷ the former proclaim Christ out of partisanship, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me [the Church] in my imprisonment. ¹⁸ What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in that I rejoice. — Phillipians 1

It is not a new problem, unique to our times. It has happened many times in the history of salvation, beginning right at the base of the holy Mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments, when the children of Israel grew tired of waiting and instead fashioned false gods after themselves.

And in Ezekiel’s time he singled out the Shepherds for blame:

 34: The word of the Lord came to me: ² “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ho, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? ³ You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep. ⁴ The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. ⁵ So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts. ⁶ My sheep were scattered, they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.

⁷ “Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: ⁸ As I live, says the Lord God, because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd; and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep; ⁹ therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: ¹⁰ Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and put a stop to their feeding the sheep; no longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.”… Continue  SH.

Os Guinness

An Anglican, he attended the Episcopal Church, but left, finding it too theologically liberal, in 2006.[12] He currently attends The Falls Church, in the Anglican Church in North America. He was one of the speakers at the Anglican Church in North America Assembly in June 2014.[13]

Guinness is named after Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher Oswald Chambers

+ See also on Os Guinness tell his story with Winston Marshall and speak of The True Root of Freedom.