If you must apologize to retain market share,
you are not engaged in ministry but in a commercial enterprise.
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He is professor emeritus of church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary California, where he taught for 29 years. He also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007 and the Heidelcast since 2009.
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If you’re even THINKING of market share in a market inhabited by other “ministries”, I’d have thought you were engaged in a commercial enterprise, whatever else you did, whether you apologized or not.
Dr Clark, how are you defining “apologize”? As in “apologetics”? Or as in “Jewel’s Apology”? Or as in saying “I’m sorry, I won’t do it again”?
The latter.
Rule 1: never apologize for anything in the Bible. Rule 2: refer to Rule 1 if you have any questions.