Wednesday, June 11, 2008

I am genuinely disturbed

A couple days ago STR linked to a Todd Bentley video.

Here are some highlights of the post, New Movement of the Spirit. So What?

Melinda begins by wondering why so many people who call themselves Christians have acquired a taste for the weird. "A lot of Christians have a taste for the weird, as though the weirder something is the more likely that the Holy Spirit is behind it. The Spirit could be behind some weird things, but it's sure not a sign of the Spirit's working."

Melinda then uses an argument from Greg Koukl explaining why we can never be left behind if we don't grab onto these new movements of the Holy Spirit. Even if the Spirit is in this so what?

We know what we need to know to live spiritually fulfilled lives. It is recorded in scripture. This is essentially what Paul is telling Timothy in II Tim 3:10-4:8. When we live according to Scripture we cannot go wrong. Holding to orthodoxy might possibly be the most important way to keep from being led astray by empty philosophies and deceitful arguments.

Why does Bentley not use scripture in his sermons (at least the excerpt we have seen)? We need to able to test and approve what is of God, and what isn't. God can work in anyway he chooses, but as for me I will hold to the orthodoxy of Christianity, because I know I cannot go wrong with Christ. I think it was C. S. Lewis who first pointed out to me (again I think in Mere Christianity) that in Christianity we should always be striving to find out what the original idea was. If it is new it is wrong... it is no longer Christian.

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