I was immersed in controversy this weekend as I read the latest book by a local big name pastor… and I can see why it’s so controversial!! He made some pretty bold statements about God…But what is really going on here? He, like every author, is trying to get you and I to see the world as they see it….. Their motive is to influence; but here in lies the problem- how do we know if what we are being “sold” is good for us to take to heart?
John tells us in 1 John chapter 4 that we should “test the spirits to see whether they are from God…” Great advice that so few of us ever do. So often we hear a “good” sermon or influencing word and never investigate the message for ourselves… we take word translation at face value, cultural facts as truth and before we know it we are convinced without even thinking. Am I telling you to doubt everything that you hear?…Not at all…But I am asking you to go past “easy” to test the spirits…the influencers that surround us everyday to know if they are really from God. It’s a big world and you are being “sold” something even now…what you “buy” is up to you.
In the name of Jesus may it be so!
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Well said and well put! That’s the great things I see you! The ability to see everything at face value and put it in words for people to believe and understand on there own terms! Keep up the great work!