God can play beautiful music through dented instruments. I already mentioned how I was sort of appalled by John Climacus’ account of the monastic “prison” and the physical torture that they went through to deal with their sin. Now I could completely dismiss that and get no benefit from it, or I can just say, “But you know what? Look at how sensitive they were to the presence of sin in their life. Maybe I’m a little bit too lackadaisical in that.” I might completely reject some notions where I think