This short appendix is simply Dean's encouragement to readers to make a
decision for Christ, and warns them that it will not be a popular decision. As
such, it contains nothing requiring comment or rebuttal, and is in fact quite
sound and a good message, but we do have an observation:
“The next
choice you make is to publicly refuse, reject, and denounce any idea that
contradicts or explains away the counsel of the Bible. Your circle of religious
friends will suddenly grow smaller, for by doing this, you will offend everyone
who ignores or explains away ‘what the Bible says’, whenever ‘what it says’
contradicts or condemns their opinions, their plans, or their friends”.
This of course offers Dean's “excuse” for anyone who tries to
contextualize the Bible, so that it no longer means what he thinks it means in
his lack of education.