embarrassed by Scripture, but we functionally reveal our embarrassment of the truth of the Bible by affirming, discussing, quoting, and preaching only certain passages while overlooking many others. Or we might have a subconscious angel on our shoulder telling us that something doesn’t add up with how we handle the Bible, but we can’t quite put our finger on it. Let me give you a couple of examples. Some of these onward-Christian pickers march into cultural wars exploiting their unashamed condemnation