Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said the character Charlie Brown kept him from quitting ministry when facing church hypocrisy, sin, and deep depression.
“On my desk where I do most of my work there stands a Charlie Brown bobblehead figurine,” he said of the beloved character, who made his debut in the Peanuts comic strip in 1950.
“I take that little comic strip figure very seriously because he kept me in ministry on two very different occasions in which I was ready to quit,” he said in a blog post Wednesday.
The first occasion, Moore recalled, was early on in his ministry, when he found himself “in a deep depression after seeing things about the underbelly of church life that I wished I had never seen: hypocrisy, backbiting, cover-up, and Darwinian power politics.”
One night he was thinking about whether he even wanted to go back to church, let alone serve in ministry, given what he knew about human depravity, including his own, when he turned on the TV and saw “A Charlie Brown Christmas” playing.
It was the words of Luke 2 in the King James Version, as recited by one of the characters,…
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