There was a man who arguably was one of the leading defenders of the Christian faith and the Bible in our day. He recently passed away. I looked up to him because I watched him defend the faith to many different people with opposing views and he was always respectful and loving in his defense. Sadly though after his passing several women came forward with sexual allegations against him. At first I didn’t believe it. How could someone with so much knowledge of God’s word do such things? In my mind it just couldn’t be. After much research on the matter I found out that one of the ministries that this man himself started had investigated the matter themselves and to my great dismay confirmed these things to be true. I want to use this as a warning to you my friends to be reminded that our human leaders are just in fact that. Human. Now I’m not going to tell you that this man wasn’t still saved because only God himself and this man have that knowledge but what I am saying is that all of his work is now a huge black mark on the faith that we shared. One who doesn’t trust the Bible could say “ see he’s is a fraud”. The key here is that the Bible is what we can trust. Not the man. We have to be so careful not to idolize our leaders. They are human. We must always check their teaching with God’s word. I’m not saying not to listen to good teaching but for sure we are responsible to do our own research into matters and the only truth is God’s word. I would encourage you to check what I say here in my posts and if I add to or take away from what the Bible says you should call me out on it. And if you see me sinning you should call me out on it!! Anything that takes someone away from Jesus is not good and should be corrected! Be careful what you read, see, and here!! Dear God, help us to depend on you and your word to teach us and not to make humans our idols.
Jesus never fails
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I grew up a midwest Illinois farm boy. I am a follower of Christ and seek to live in fellowship with him and to live by his power and for his purpose. I am married and have 7 children. View all posts by andyfarwell