The Greatest Threat to Christianity - A low View of Scripture

A low view of Scripture – Feelings, voices, visions, experience, emotion, image and other subjective means are elevated above Scripture in our worship and in our personal lives. How many churches, and individuals, put their trust in music, drama, programs and buildings. This is deadly.

Tim Challies puts it this way,

“…spiritual discernment must be founded upon God’s objective revelation of Himself in Scripture. We can only judge between what is wrong and what is right when we know what God says to be true. We can know this only from Scripture.”

What gets overlooked by many is that Scripture is sufficient. Many may believe, and acknowledge, that the Bible is inerrant and infallible, but their practice shows a lack of trust in its sufficiency. By our practices, and actions, are we affirming the great Reformation thrust of sola scriptura, or are we putting our trust in something else?

In A Call For Discernment, Jay Adams writes:

"The Bible does not teach that there are numerous ways to please God, each of which is as good as the next. Nor does it teach that various opinions are more or less God's ways. What it teaches--everywhere--is that any thought or way that is not wholly God's is altogether wrong and must be rejected. According to the Bible, a miss is as good as a mile. There is only one God, and there is only one way of life--His! People today don't like to hear such things--even people within the church. Why? Because they have a different mindset. Many of them have not known the Bible from childhood or ever made an intensive study of it later on, so their mindset is unbiblical… With pastors and people alike growing up in an environment that stresses continuum thinking, antithesis is dulled as more and more people attempt to integrate sociology, psychology, and business management principles with Scripture."

May we all develop a biblical mindset.

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” Colossians 3:16

Next week: A low view of theology

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