Subject: Does it Really matter? |
Bible Note: The verses in parenthesis were the basis of these God-led decisions of the church. I'll take the church's Godly, Holy Spirit, Bible based understanding of the Scriptures over Sabbatarian sects and Judaizers in half a heartbeat! Give me the blood-purchased church over cults any day. "Of course, you are not such wiseacres as to think of ways that you can expound Scripture without assistance from the works of divines and learned men who have labored before you in the field of exposition. If you are of that opinion, pray remain so, for you are not worth the trouble of conversion, and like a little coterie who think with you, would resent the attempt as an insult to your infallibility. It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others." --Charles Spurgeon "And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ... so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes." (Ephesians 4:11, 12, 14 ESV) |