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Post date: Aug 28, 2016 3:28:25 AM
Pride is concerned with WHO is right
Humility is concerned with WHAT is right
One of the most fundamental definitions of maturity is the ability to handle complexity.
When watching a movie the little boy wants to know: "Who is the goodie and who is the baddie?"
Life is simple, the cowboy is good and the crook is bad.
This pastor is good and that pastor is bad.
However when you grow up, you watch a history movie and you realize, its not that simple. We are all on a growth path and fact is, no human is ever completely wrong, and similarly no human is completely right.
Even Paul said:
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
1 Corinthians 13:12
12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.
16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.
Philippians 3:12-16
I have heard many preachers trying to imply everything they preach is true and correct, but guys, really?, that is just arrogance and presumption. Then once I heard a guy preaching saying that 20 % of what he was saying was inevitably wrong. But he didn't know which 20% so he asked the audience to receive the sermon as best they can and to continue to diligently check everything against their own conscience, the scripture and the Holy Spirit.
Now that is powerful and will lead to mature and adult Christians who can themselves rightly divide the word of truth just like Paul expects in
14 Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.
2 Timothy 2:14
11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 5:11-14
So here is the point - eat the meat and spit out the bones.
You don't have to dis-fellowship everybody who holds a few weird doctrines that you cant find in scripture ( I am not talking about the Lordship of Jesus and His atoning death) , as long as you don't believe and preach those things until you clearly see it in scripture. And if time permits talk to your brother about them and ask him to expound them from scripture. not HAVOC theology (wink wink)
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