into cantankerousness? That is a tragedy. Of all the people in the world who ought to be gracious, loving, kind, and generous, they ought to be the people who love God the most.” This, of course, does not justify a sweetness that reeks of compromise and a gentleness that speaks of cowardliness. We are to be dogmatic and firm in our convictions, but we can indeed express them with dignity and nobility. Too often we witness professing Christians proclaiming their convictions in arrogant and ill-mannered