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I see all the time where people toss books and teachers because they do not agree with everything they say. That’s fine to do, but in the end you could really miss out on learning something that God wants you to know. From Moses and Aaron to Samson and David, God’s pattern is using imperfect men to accomplish impossible tasks.
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I see all the time where people toss books and teachers because they do not agree with everything they say. That’s fine to do, but in the end you could really miss out on learning something that God wants you to know. From Moses and Aaron to Samson and David, God’s pattern is using imperfect men to accomplish impossible tasks.
If you wind up tossing every book (or preacher!) that happens to have something wrong in it, you’ll wind up with nothing but the Bible. That may be okay for a while, but that Bible tells you that we’re supposed to learn from teachers (Eph. 4:11, I Cor. 12:28, Acts 13:1).
Other than God and the Bible, every book and teacher will have problems. So what do you keep and what do you let go? What is serious and inexcusable and what can you overlook? What helps me is viewing these “problems” in three categories.
1. Doctrinal Errors.
Doctrinal errors are usually little hangups and ideas that someone may have that don’t affect things outside of the actual teaching itself. I knew a guy once who thought he was going to get rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ because he abstained from ice cream.
Really? Not worth it! Give me my Rocky Road!
Of course the Bible doesn’t say anything about this. It was just a weird little idea he got in his head somehow and no one was going to tell him otherwise. Now it’s true that God expects us to show temperance in our lives and there’s a reward for putting your body under subjection… but there’s nothing wrong with a little Georgia Mud Fudge now and then.
