10 Heresy-Hiders in Evangelicalism (sound like anyone we know in the seeker movement

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while I may disagree with Jared on some things, this article was woeth sharing of his



10 Heresy-Hiders in Evangelicalism | Jared Moore



10 Heresy-Hiders in Evangelicalism


If you want to penetrate evangelicalism with heresy, here are 10 things you can do…

1. Put your heresy in a song with a good beat. It will be sung in churches all over the world.

2. Put your heresy in a song with some sentimentality. Many evangelicals like to sing about how mommies, babies, daddies, etc. are the glory of heaven.

3. Appeal to the sinful nature. ”I want to hear how awesome I am; so, tell me how awesome I am.”



4. Appeal to the idolatry of your hearers. If you live in an entertainment-centered society, make sure you entertain while presenting your heresy. If you live in a postmodern society, make sure you say nothing absolute while appealing to the only truth you know: “I’m not sure.”



5. Dress it up in new clothes. Don’t present heresy how previous heretics presented it, instead dress up in new clothes. Present the heresy like a politician does. Use catch-phrases that sound biblical. Most people will walk away thinking, saying, and believing your catch-phrases.

6. Change definitions. If you change the definitions of words, you can sign any document or agree with any orthodox doctrine. You know what you mean, just make sure no one else does.

Try to please everyone a little bit; for, after all, when it comes to doctrine and evangelicalism, you don’t have to be orthodox, you just need to sound orthodox.




7. Appear cool, sweet, metro, or simply different from other pastors. Spike your hair and dress cool. Say curse words from the pulpit occasionally. Be “edgy,” a type of “shock-jock.” Be the “Howard Stern” of the evangelical world.

8. Get everyone to like your personality. If everyone likes you, then you can almost say anything. Always be positive and encouraging.

9. Grow the crowd numerically. If your methods produce visible numbers, then you can almost say anything. In evangelicalism, numbers equal success; and success, not biblical obedience, is the goal.

10. Increase giving and baptisms. If you’re bringing in money and numbers, you can about do or say anything. Make sure the world thinks you’re a big deal. If the world likes you, the evangelical church will like you as well.

What are your thoughts?



10 Heresy-Hiders in Evangelicalism | Jared Moore



dont those 10 things sound like some of the folks in the willow creek association church movement and other seeker driven church movements

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MARKS OF A FALSE TEACHER : Apprising Ministries


MARKS OF A FALSE TEACHER
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Features

From … and the world hears them



Numerous New Testament passages warn believers of false teachers who are already in the church or who are yet to come.



We would be wise to review their characteristics:




*False teachers will come in the name of Christ and mislead many.” (Matt. 24:4-5,11)

*They will arrive after Jesus departs, being savage wolves among Christians, speaking perverse things in order to draw us away.” (Acts 20:29-30)

*Present a different, distorted gospel.” (Gal. 1:6-7)

*Paul calls them “dogs” and “evil workers” who teach a”false circumcision“. (Philippians 3:2)



*They will attempt to “delude you with persuasive arguments” captivating us “‘through philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.” (Col. 2:4,8)

*Some will “defraud you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of angels, taking his stand of visions he has seen….” (Col. 2:18)

*These people will want you to “submit yourself to decrees, such as, ‘Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!‘” (Col. 2:20-21)

*They will try to teach strange doctrines, myths, and endless geneologies.” (1Tim. 1:3-4)

*Some may pay “attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons;” will “forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods…” (1Tim. 4:3)



*”Lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness, although they have denied its power.” (2Tim.3:2-5)




*These people are “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,” and also ”oppose the truth .”(2Tim. 3:7,8)

*In the last hours, these false teachers “went out from us, but they were not really of us.” (1John 2:19)

*They are liars denying that Jesus is the Christ making them an antichrist.” (1 John 2:22)

*There will be “many deceivers” who “have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh.” (2 John 7)

*These “certain persons have crept in unnoticed…ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” (Jude 4)




“Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.


If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.” (2 John 8-11) (Online source, emphasis theirs)



MARKS OF A FALSE TEACHER : Apprising Ministries