When Silence is NOT Golden

"For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God..." (Acts 20:27). Paul's words to the elders at Ephesus are a challenge to me in these difficult days when the truth seems rather unpopular. These words of Paul are the reason he gives for what he said in the previous verse, "I am innocent of the blood of all men" (20:26). Because he has faithfully proclaimed the truth he is innocent. Do we see that speaking the truth is a matter of life and death? I don't want people to be condemned because I was silent.