All I am saying is that I wish Lifeway would have some courage and pull material that taught a false gospel. If they replaced Osteen, his crew, etc. and put out more solid authors maybe everyone would stop flocking to monergism and wtsbooks.com.

What is great is that this probably was a response to the churches that spoke up! What is sad is that churches don’t speak up when it comes to false gospels.

LifeWay should answer to the churches of the SBC. Giving them the benefit of trust, I would guess this is what they were attempting to do.

I would agree that there does appear to be some inconsistency at many Lifeway stores. From what limited knowledge I have about these stores, much of what is displayed and how it is displayed is determined by the local store managers. It is only in rare occasions (as in this case) that a directive comes from the national office concerning the display of products. I would hope that Lifeway has developed and will continue to develop some guidelines and training concerning the display and sale of theological and/or methodologically questionable materials in their stores.

That being said I think we can all agree that it is up to Lifeway to set those standards and not an offended magazine publisher or a prosecutorial national press. Thanks agian for the feedback.

Joe Garner III

It’s going to be hard for them to draw the line, especially with outside publishers.