Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Bible Based or Biblical

I just returned from Ho, Ghana where I had the privilege of training pastors in leadership development and spiritual transformation. One of the sessions was from II Tim. 3:16.  The session was called "We Do Not Have The Right To Be Wrong".  We can be wrong, but we don't have the right to be wrong, especially, as pastors and teachers.  Scripture says we will have the stricter judgement.  We then looked at Matt. 1815-20 regarding, "Where two or more are gathered in my name".  We looked at the context and they were surprised how it has been taken out of context.

Yet even here in America we haven taken this verse out of context.
Scripture is to be our final authority on life and practice. Many say they as a church and as pastors that we are Bible based.  There are a lot of cults that use Scripture and use it wrongly.  So the issue is not be Bible based, but actually being Biblical.  This requires study - diligent study.
Are we willing to change if shown that we are wrong?  One of the pastors in Ghana asked, "If we know we have not preached truth after being found to be in error, do you admit it to your congregation?" What say you?  Do we perpetuate wrong teaching? Remember we receive the stricter judgement.


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