Heresy Hunters vs the Holy Spirit

HERESY HUNTERS vs THE HOLY SPIRIT     (# 15)

The mature verify; the immature don’t. Jesus wants us to be childlike, not childish. Childlike: Jesus said, “Unless you…. become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” If being childlike is required to gain entrance into Christ, is it not also a requirement to go deeper in Christ? Childish: Paul wrote, “We should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting.” “Wind[s] of doctrine”, “trickery of men”, “cunning craftiness”, “deceitful plotting” have increased exponentially since Paul’s day, and freely roam throughout evangelicalism.

Repeat: The mature verify; the immature don’t. The immature are easily impressed, and therefore easily led astray. The terms Bible scholar and theologian and doctor, and pastor and reverend and superintendent etc. should impress nobody simply because they often (usually?) disagree with each other. 

Repeat again: The mature verify; the immature don’t. That certificate posted in the pastor’s office should impress nobody; he is not Christ’s agent, but his religion’s agent. Paul to the Galatians: “Those who seemed to be something–whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man.”    

And again: The mature verify; the immature don’t. The immature christian follows the crowd; the mature christian follows Christ. Paul: “Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.” The mature are disciples of Christ; the immature are disciples of evangelicalism.

Once more: The mature verify; the immature don’t. Followers of heresy hunters are, spiritually speaking, particularly immature, allowing themselves to be distanced from the very “Spirit of truth” and drawn into  an ideology that is bizarre even by evangelical standard.