A reader named Alex wrote a long, seemingly courteous letter to me — more careful and more genuinely wrestling with Scripture than most criticism I receive, but making serious charges all the same: that my teaching is doctrinally vague, that it amounts to extreme separatism, and that it risks pushing isolated believers into a dangerous, unaccountable "lone wolf" Christianity with no fellowship at all.
In this episode, I explain why I'm not going to answer him privately, point by point, in his inbox — and instead lay out the fuller answer here, for him and for everyone raising the same questions.
Along the way: what Jeremiah 24's "Two Baskets of Figs" actually says about who the real exiles were; the Abedi Inversion from The Glorious Few and why systemic diagnosis isn't the same as anecdote; a direct answer to the lone-wolf concern and what real, biblical exile does and doesn't look like; and a closer look at Samuel Rutherford's warning against Brownist separatism — including why his own life as a Covenanter who wrote Lex, Rex makes him an odd witness to conscript for "never leave."
You can tune in to the YouTube of the podcasthere, and read all copy on the blog here.
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