Our view of scripture and our view through scripture form the basis of our personal theology

And it is our personal theology that flavors our worship, our prayer, our preaching and our daily life

If you listen, you will learn what a person believes and what they love by what they say.

There is a world of difference between a literal, doctrinal, authoritative use of the Bible and an illustrative, moral use of the Bible.

If you rarely hear them preach the cross, if you rarely hear them talk of sin and the need for repentance, if you rarely hear them talk of the supremacy of Christ over all others, of a Savior who shed blood for your sins and gives grace to the wicked, then they do not believe those things as being of supreme import.

If week after week they talk about a God who will not judge you, who will not hold you accountable, a God who wants to give you stuff and asks nothing in return. If they talk of a God of no standards and no expectations, then that is their view of scripture and how they live their life.

If you wait long enough then fruit will manifest according to their theology. The casual use, the academic illustration, the lifestyle generalization or the sheer indifference to the total tenor and context of scripture will become evident over time.

It is the slow cancer of faulty theology that destroys a person’s walk and effective service. It is faulty humanistic theology that has caused the decline of Christianity in the western church.

From such men run
From such relationships separate yourself
From such teachers no longer learn

From such churches leave

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