Scott McClellan tells why Jack Bauer is not his hero:
As the Church, we’re called to be something different, something holy and set apart, something other. When we allow ourselves to believe that the ends justify the means, we unknowingly compromise our identity despite our best intentions. We become corporations in an attempt to save the business-minded generation. We become slogans on billboards in an attempt to save the commuting-to-work generation. We become MTV in an attempt to save the MTV generation. We digitize the gospel in an attempt to save the online generation.
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