Subject: Is sacrifice requirement to christianity |
Bible Note: Dear John: The segment of your post to Jared that says, "I will pray for you and ask God to lead you to a church that teaches sound doctrine, where the gospel is proclaimed and Christ is lifted up" is an excellent statement, one that I endorse without reservation, and I will join you in prayer for this young man, Jared. .... I too did a bit of research on YWAM and, albeit a few well-known names in religious circles apparently have some good things to say about the movement, I found, as you did, some alarming things too. I will touch briefly on but two of them. The first is that the organization (or at least certain local chapters of it) have been visited and tainted by the false doctrines (heresies) of the Word of Faith Movement -- the 'name it and claim it' psycho-babbel that has as much to do with the preaching of the gospel of Christ as a baboon does with programming a computer. And the other caveat I'd like to mention is this. I noticed the word "ecumenical" showing up in many of their web sites. The road to ecumenicism is a dangerous and slippery one, freighted with temptations and invitations to fall away from orthodoxy all along its path, embracing, as it does, doctrines that are sound and doctrines that are as false as they come, having an impossible goal of melding all of them under one broad canopy and calling the mixture unity, or one-world religion, or something of the sort. Scripture makes a clear distinction, and draws a sharp line of demarcation, between sound doctrine and false doctrines. It is not within the province of dim-sighted man to mix sound teaching with false teaching and call it ecumenicism, nor to re-image God nor, nor to re-define His eternal Word to fit the notions of the world in our time. Those misguided souls who dare to try it do so to their own eternal peril. --Hank |