Wake-Up to false teaching with honesty and love!
I woke up this morning with these two short poems in my mind and posted them on Facebook before coming to today’s Wake-Up Call blog post that warns Christians about false teachers and false teaching:
If you fake it
Till you make it
What you make
Will be fake.
The simplicity
Of authenticity
Never needs the spin
Of publicity.
The first thing I saw when I went to Facebook this morning was the picture of a thin cross posted by Carol Custer Perry with the words “This is the real deal. I didn’t photoshop the flame off this one.”
The next thing I saw on Facebook was “This is a great statement from JD: False teaching, while often cloaked in plausible shifts in interpretive methodology, is usually driven by an attempt to accommodate or otherwise pave the way for the expansion of human appetites and novel ideologies concerning the human body,” posted by Janet Wehrle.
Before I went to bed last night, I posted this on Facebook: “Christianity needs to align with the teachings of Jesus and the earliest Christ-followers (as found in the Bible). To depart from them is to abandon the faith.” Yesterday morning I posted: “To want or proclaim a God with no consequences or judgement is to want chaos and injustice.”
It appears that the past 24 hours the Holy Spirit has been confirming to me the importance of this morning’s Wake-Up Call warning. I hope Christians who embrace the term “deconstruction of the faith” will wake-up and begin to follow Jesus and the writings of His earliest followers instead of their own appetites and desires.
It’s time to disassociate from false teachers by “speaking the truth in love,” and truly loving them (but not approving of their wrong behavior and false teaching) even when they treat us like they are our enemies. Honest and kind disagreement when we believe someone is in dangerous error isn’t our judging them. It’s a loving warning that we believe they are in danger of creating harmful consequences for themselves, for other people, and for society at large.
