And yet, you just spent all that time defending and discussing method rather than message. . . .Yes, the popular strategy desperately needs to be reevaluated. The strategy of coddling arrogance and ignorance is doomed from the start. This strategy is the fad now and has been for a few decades, While we embrace it we LOSE ground in our culture.
So yes the strategy should be reevaluated but humility is necessary for that to take place. The humble ones are almost NEVER the ones with the sweetest words. Boldness, bluntness and humility are are true companions. Those who think they are being humble by being more winsome almost never are. But they convince themselves that they are by gaining consensus of other people who also want to think that these things make one humble.
Humility is a ready willingness to be the odd man out- to be the one called arrogant for standing firmly for what he thinks is right. Humility is almost never in the ranks of consensus. Humility is the lack of ambition for consensus concerning the popular fad of communication or ministry or whatever.
Arrogance thinks that it is humility. That's the arrogance of it. Arrogance loves to be bragged on about how humble it is.
Humility doesn't think of these things at all. Humility thinks only, "How can I communicate the truth the way it best deserves to be communicated in the current circumstance? How can I do that regardless of the criticism it brings, the strife against me it stirs, the vitriolic words it will heave upon my head- but I know that the sting of truth that makes me unpopular is that which makes the difference in the long run."
So yes, with all my heart I pray the current strategy will be reevaluated. I hope that some soul hungering more for truth than consensus will compare the methods he currently employs to the methods of men like Luther or Peter or Paul or Christ or Elijah or Edwards or Spurgeon and many others who are not restricted to just a fad of communication strategy like the one brainwashing our religious culture today. I hope then TRUE humility will arise in that soul and embrace the sting of truth that has ALWAYS made the difference for the Kingdom of God in every age when it has prospered.
BTW: I agree with Rippon regarding his quoting of that section of your response to Seeking; well said.