False Teachers
May 10, 2010 at 6:30 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abundance, adultery, angel, anger, animals, appearance, arrogant, ateasetees, atheism, bad, benefit, Benny Hinn, Berean, Bible, blemish, blessing, boast, bondage, breakthrough, Brian McLaren, broad, Buddhism, Carolyn, Cathy, Charles Spurgeon, charm, Christian, church, compromise, context, Copeland, Corinthians, Creflo, crusade, culture, customs, death, deception, demons, denomination, depart, destruction, destructive, devil, devotion, disguise, doctrine, Dollar, Doug Pagitt, Duplantis, Ed Young Jr., eisegesis, elect, emergent church, evangelism, Eve, faith, false, fame, Father, favor, feelings, friend, fruit, Galatians, gate, George Whitefield, Gloria, Gnosticism, God, gods, good, gospel, grace, greed, Greg Boyd, Hagin, health, hell, heresy, hermeneutics, Hinduism, holiness, holy, hope, idol, idolatry, image, instinct, Jerry, Jesse, Jesus, job, Joel Osteen, John, John Bunyan, John Knox, John Wesley, Joyce Meyer, judgment, Kenneth, kingdom, law, lawlessness, life, light, Lord, love, lust, majesties, marriage, master, mercy, ministry, miracles, mock, money, N.T. Wright, narrow, New Testament, Old Testament, passage, pastor, Paul, Paula White, peace, Peter, piety, plane, platitudes, poor, popularity, power, pragmatism, prayer, prophesy, prophets, pulpit, relevancy, religious, repent, revile, Rick Joyner, Rick Warren, righteous, Rob Bell, salvation, Satan, Savelle, scripture, seed, sensuality, Sermon on the Mount, serpent, sheep, sickness, sin, Spirit, stain, starbucks, station, T.D. Jakes, tactics, Taffi, teacher, ten commandments, test, Todd Bentley, tongues, Tony Campolo, tree, truth, TV, twisting, universalism, V. Gene Robinson, wealth, weather, wolves, work, world
With all of the different events taking place in the church and all of the men and women who claim to be preaching the gospel, a question arises. How do you know? How can you be sure that the man (or woman) that you are hearing speak is actually speaking the truth? Some talk about how they’ve heard from God and how God “told them” things. Others proclaim that the growth and size of their ministries is proof that God is “blessing” them. There are many “preachers” today, especially in America, and all of them profess to be Bible-believing, truth-preaching, Christians. But are they?
In the New Testament, there are a number of passages of scripture that should give us pause before we go proclaiming that “Pastor so and so” is the next “up and coming” pastor. Unfortunately, a number of people in the church seem to go by appearance or charm. Others go by whether or not the one preaching agrees with what they already believe. We go by sound or size of the church or by popularity or by relevancy.
So, how should Christians be testing their pastors/preachers and other people claiming to do the work of God? Continue Reading False Teachers…
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