This past Sunday we hosted a professor from Calvary University who spoke about Replacement Theology and differing views about the future of the nation of Israel as prophesied in the Bible. Most of the authors that were quoted, who hold different views, were still very much men of faith. Which, of course, begged the question: how far can we push doctrine before we fall right off the edge (eg. Hymenaeus and Alexander – 1 Timothy 1:20)?
For some reason it reminded me of a story I used to tell at Awana Grand Prix (soap box derby) races, both here and in my CO days. A king was looking to hire a driver to take his only daughter to and from school. As he got down to the final interview he asked each driver how close he could get to the edge of the hairpin turn at the top of the mountain pass on the way to his daughter’s school. Two of the drivers bragged about how close they could get to the edge. The driver, he ultimately hired, assured the King that with his one and only daughter in the car, he would stay as far from the edge as possible. Then I would relate that to Joseph fleeing Potiphar’s wife rather than hanging in and trying to resist.
How worldly can a church get before it’s too worldly? How legalistic can a church get before it’s too legalistic? How extra biblical can a church get before it’s too extra biblical? I don’t know for sure, but what I do know is that I need to stay as close to the truth as I possibly can! And let God take care of the rest! Amen?
YBIC,
Pastor Scott
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