Heresy Hunters vs the Holy Spirit

HERESY HUNTERS vs THE HOLY SPIRIT     (# 5)

I had serviced many Kelowna residents in my forty years as an electrical contractor. And like  you I have many acquaintances within and without christianity. I have come to this conclusion: Most people, christians and non-christians, do not tell deliberate lies.

However cessationists (most heresy hunters are cessationists) are different. They assume many in Christ’s church routinely fabricate. I will give you one of many examples….

Most of you have read or heard about Todd Burpo’s “Heaven Is For Real” regarding his four-year-old Colton who had a visitation of heaven while undergoing an alarming operation. And, I assume, most of you, like me, believed Todd’s account of his son seeing Jesus, angels, his great-grandfather, and his sister who had “died in his mummy’s tummy”. So how do heresy hunters react to this moving testimony?

John, a kingpin in the heresy hunter/cessationist camp, realizing his vast army of ardent followers had been impacted by both the book and the ensuing movie, felt a need to publicly decry “Heaven Is For Real”  as a fabrication.

John’s denunciation was, in fact, labelling Todd Burpo, a young pastor and the book’s co-author, a fabricator whose motive must be profit and/or fame. Also, those who accept John’s comments as valid is believing Colton, now 25 and still affirming his childhood experience, to be a mischievous collaborator.

John, a calvinist pastor and multi-millionaire author of several best-sellers, has impacted many (most?) of my christian FB friends. I ‘hear’ John and likeminded h-hunters speaking through your postings. I discern a hesitancy to embrace Christ’s Sent-one, the Holy Spirit, as the mainstay of your christianity. I suggest that anyone ignoring the leadership the very “Spirit of Christ” will be deeply regretful at Christ’s upcoming judgment seat.