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As for a believer’s old friends thinking he has gone crazyand not being particularly thrilled with his new life, that hasbeen happening for 2,000 years. e apostle Peter described itin his day. “Wherein they think it strange that ye run not withthem to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you” (1 Peter4:1).As for rebuking sin, that is the legitimate and Goddesignedpurpose of the Law. It exposes sin to make men seetheir lost condition so that they will flee to Christ (Romans3:19). e Bible commands the believer not only not to haveany fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, “butrather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11).As for the idea that this is not an act of love, it is actuallythe most loving and compassionate thing one can do!Unbelievers don’t consider it loving, of course; they want theBible believer to keep his religion to himself; but the day willcome when they will understand that preaching the Scriptureand warning of spiritual danger is a most compassionategesture.Talbot says that during those days he talked Catholics outof their church and “convinced them they couldn’t really besaved in the Catholic church with all that idol worship andrepeated ritual” (Troubadour for the Lord, p. 63).He claims that he “was becoming more centered on thatbook [the Bible] than on Jesus” and “was unwittinglycommitting the sin of bibliolatry” (Troubadour for the Lord, p.65).We don’t know what was going on in his heart, but it isimpossible to walk with Christ properly without making theBible central to one’s Christian life. is is not bibliolatry; it isobedience. Fundamentalists don’t worship the Bible; theyworship God; but they honor the Bible for what it claims tobe, which is the very Word of God. e Lord Jesus said, “If yecontinue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and yeshall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John8:31-32), and, “He that is of God heareth God’s words” (John353