Christians in the Age of Outrage: How to Bring Our Best When the World Is at Its Worst

by Ed Stetzer

Take, for instance, Exodus 34:5-7. Here we have the pinnacle of the Old Testament description of God as the Lord describes himself to Moses: The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”