Recently a preacher told me that although he believed the doctrines of grace, he was not a fanatic about it. He assured me that he sought to reach a proper balance between God's sovereignty and human responsibility, and he was not concerned about making sure his hearers could cross every "t" and dot every "I". After hearing him preach, I was convinced that he lived up to what he said. Not only was he not a fanatic regarding the doctrines of grace, you would never even know he believed them at all by his preaching. If a proper balance between sovereignty and responsibility is achieved by silence, he certainly achieved that. Not only did he not concern himself about his hearers not crossing every "t" and dotting every "I", it was evident that he was not concerned about them crossing any "t" or dotting any "I".

Give me somebody who is a fanatic about God's truth! Deliver me from the compromiser who under the guise of "balance" carefully avoids offending anybody! I want to hear a man who does cross every "t" and dot every "I". After all, the Lord did say, "Verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."