Do Polemic Ministries Really Edify?

We remember the vision and ministry of Marshall Foster, now gone to be with the Lord. And, we look at a less profitable ministry of polemics, and the defrocking of JD Hall—once more or less the king of polemics. The goal here is simply to "take heed lest ye fall." Here are warnings to us conservatives . . . the censorious, and those with the "gift" of negativity and criticism. Is the negative resolved in the positive? Is the bad news followed by the good news? Do we attack problems and positions or people?