Heresy Hunters vs the Holy Spirit

HERESY HUNTERS vs THE HOLY SPIRIT     (# 8)

My definition of HERESY: “A (seriously) injurious teaching that goes beyond mere errancy or misunderstanding of Scripture.” (A stricter definition – a false teaching or misunderstanding – would render us all heretics; nobody has full understanding.) The following is my list of perceived heresies within evangelicalism (most of which are common both to the heresy hunters faction and the charismatic faction they so routinely castigate)….

*** division of Christ’s church into ministerial (clergy) and laity
*** centrality of christian leadership over centrality of Christ
*** submission to christian leadership rather than the Holy Spirit
*** the evangelical tithe (surrendering 10% of one’s income to a church)
*** salaries
*** sunday collections
*** church mortgage
*** allegiance to a ‘home church’
*** forbidden pulpit access
*** credentials and diplomas
*** appellations (titles, e.g., “pastor”, “reverend”, “doctor”)
*** accountability to anyone other than Jesus Christ
*** church hierarchy
*** institutionalism (calendar christianity)
*** church program
*** denominationalism
*** calvinism (God determines who is to be saved and who is not)
*** cessationism (God ceased doing the miraculous/supernatural)

FB friends, most (all?) of you have adopted/embraced, to varying degrees, many (most?) of these damaging heresies. There is a way out, an escape strategy, a new beginning. This escape has a name…. Jesus Christ. Seriously apologize to Lord Jesus. Ask Him for the courage to be a NT christian.