Well, the thing is., I like JP yes I do.., But seriously, he is able to take care of himself. My motivation is knowing the way people can wrongly accuse others. Not only here on CC but in our country and also in the world via news media/internet public opinion etc.... But that is also on a small scale such as in our daily lives. I come across it all the time in life. Gossip here at work is treated as the truth. But if I don't jump in and give it my attention quite often I can be a tool that slows down it's momentum.
I have decided at all opportunity I will not join in but actively go against gossip by not being added to the number. And by giving grace instead of judgment.
I see it all the time how God's Word is true. "A kind word turns away wrath". it seriously does. I'm called to be salt and light. Again, I don't think JP needs defending by me since many more talented and able have already done that very adequately. I read JGIGs posts and am in awe of her ability to research and write the way she does.
Even though I like JP very much, what I am truly motivated by is watching how words can be poison when used with a wrong motivation. We believers are told to weigh our words and to love people not poison them.
And why does the Bible say that love covers a multitude of sin? What does that really mean? I see it means Jesus loved us and not only were sins covered in the old testament., now sins are actually taken away., washed away and what was once red as crimson is now white as snow. Clean. Will I go and add to the throwing of the dirt? No., that is not my calling.
God has gifted us differently. My first book as a baby Christian I purchased outside the bible was Walter Martin's Kingdom of the Cults...and the rest was history. But because some are more doctrinally (truth vs error) oriented shouldn't mean they are poo poo'd by those gifted in other areas. We are the Body of Christ in need of one another. So what is one person's 'dirt' is another person's 'ministry'. But I agree we can become unbalanced, especially when we ignore the gifts of other's in the Body.