The biggest idol these days is a “Jesus” created in their own image …
By “Christians” who dismiss His plenary authority of Scripture.
Category: Simple Truth
Unless you are part of a functional local assembly of believers, I’m really not interested in your books and blogs telling everyone how to be or not be the church …
Unless you are out there doing actual evangelism and seeing people surrender their lives to Jesus and His Kingdom, I’m really not interested in hearing you tell everyone how they must or must not do evangelism …
Unless you are ministering redemption to actual people trapped in sin, I’m really not interested in your views on how Christians should or shouldn’t speak up about homosexuality or any other lifestyle of bondage …
Unless you are secure enough in your own gifts and motivations to honor God’s different callings in others, I’m really not interested in why you think He can’t send some to serve His Kingdom in academia, politics, the armed forces, government or the like …
Unless you are submitted to God’s plenary authority and truth of Scripture as His written Word, I’m really not interested in your “deeper life” revelations …
Unless you are an authentic disciple who has the integrity to sacrificially walk the walk and move beyond merely talking the talk, I’m really not interested in your attempts to distort Christ to reflect your own existential angst and narcissistic sensibilities.
Sorry if that offends …
But then again, maybe it’s time someone cared enough to offend and call you to repentance.
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.
You can’t change what you won’t confront:
Courage and sacrifice are the price we pay for freedom …
While evil thrives on lethargy and fear.
“The Pastor” of a church, ministry or whatever …
Is a phrase and a concept utterly absent from the New Testament.
Nope, not, nada …
Just ain’t there.
Instead, it comes from reading post-Biblical assumptions, presumptions and meanings not found in Scripture back into Scripture.
In the New Testament, some minister pastorally …
As simply one of many different functions expressed within a healthy church by a diversity of people.
More specifically, the New Testament references multiple elders in each church, each of whom is to function pastorally …
As well as teach, watch over and protect God’s flock together, among other things.
But no one is ever called a “Senior Pastor,” “Lead Pastor,” or any other form of “Pastor” in the New Testament …
And the word is never, ever used as justification for one person to be over a church.
Be a Berean …
Search Scripture to see if these things be so.
Then have the courage to follow what God’s Word actually says …
Rather than subsequent human traditions.
Anarchy begins when the State elevates the right to choose sin …
Over the right to choose virtue.
Biblical Christians who submit their sensibilities to Scripture …
End up trusting God and doubting doubt.
Existential “Christians” who submit Scripture to their sensibilities …
End up doubting God and trusting doubt.
“Progressive” nonsense distorts love by affirming life-controlling sin …
And those who promote it.
The New Legalism:
Repressive progressive “Christians” who elevate their own sensibilities above Scripture in the name of “tolerance” …
While being intolerant of those who honor Scripture instead.
Saying Jesus is all about relationship and not religion …
Is narcissistic.
It’s an attempt to have Jesus on our own terms, without His Scriptural authority and the propositional truths, commands, precepts and moral imperatives He reveals there.
Yes, Jesus wants a relationship with us …
But on HIS terms, not ours.
Only reprobates call virtue …
The new hate speech.
It is narcissistic foolishness to twist the truth that all Scripture points to Jesus …
Into the lie that our own perceptions of Jesus therefore supersede Scripture.
Such non-sequiturs, and those who promote them, inevitably destroy all they touch …
Including authentic faith, discipleship and churches.
In life, faith and culture …
Without virtue, liberty is impossible.
The Gospel works for none of us …
Unless it works for the worst of us.
Because it’s only through Godly repentance …
That it works for any of us.
How can some say they believe in the authority of Scripture …
When they keep reading post-Biblical meanings, presumptions and traditions back into its original words and contexts?
Wolves twist the saying “all Scripture points to Christ” …
To subjugate all Scripture to their concept of Christ,
Rather than subjugating their concept of Christ to all Scripture.
If history proves anything, it’s that God’s people change history when they refuse to go along to get along …
And God’s not yet done with history.
Because He loves us, Jesus affirms in Romans 13 – and elsewhere – the State’s obligation to stop evildoers and protect innocent lives …
Through the judicious use, if needed, of deadly force.
Some deny this by elevating their own sensibilities above Christ and His Word …
While reducing love to distorted sentimentalities.
I have yet to see Christ entrust authentic spiritual power …
To those who dismiss His plenary authority of Scripture.
You can’t know the power of His Name …
If you reject the power of His Word.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, at a certain point, is more about rationalizing what is wrong …
Than making an imperfect choice for the greater good.
Tolerance without discernment …
Is like the blind leading the lost.
When corporations use their growing power over speech, commerce and social interactions to oppose virtue …
They become as much a threat to faith and freedom as any totalitarian government.
Expediency destroys our witness …
When we no longer speak truth to power.
For-profit non-prophets peddle their wares to naïve Christians …
Because there’s always a market for playing on fears and tickling ears.
When we replace prudence with expediency …
We lose our moral witness.
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