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lindi1208
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 A question about separating oneself from erroneous teachings?

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ. As we continue our walk with Jesus and as a body of believers, has any of you ever felt a sense of a need to spend less time with other christians who strongly follow and advocate erroneous teachings such as WOF teaching. In essence they love Jesus but are embracing another gospel one( they often tell me I need demons to be cast out of me because I often face trials and tribulations,persecutions my life ought to be health, wealth, prosperous evidenced by material possession etc).I personally have no care for material things just would rather be spiritually rich and trust the Lord to provide for all my needs even the smallest and he faithfully provides all the time.I have met many believers from different fellowships and have for a season become close to many, thing is I love anyone who loves Jesus:) I only ask because I pray and ask the Lord to fill me with his love so as to be able to love all those around me but at times I sense that I need to withdraw myself from some fellow christians due to their practices or beliefs. I have had bible study sessions with them and at times God has opened their eyes to their error glory to God! I was just wondering if some of you have had similar experiences whereby you felt led to separate yourself from a body of believers, because the greatest commandment after loving The Lord our God is to love one another. So in essence can we still love each other but from afar.


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Lindi

 2011/12/22 21:23Profile
Elibeth
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 Re: A question about separating oneself from erroneous teachings?

Dearest Lindi1208,

I am needing to go now ,but could you refer back to what I wrote to 'Desertlilly' ...about ' Reclaiming the seven mountains'...?

Bless you,

Elizabeth

 2011/12/22 23:03Profile
Yeshuasboy
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 Re: A question about separating oneself from erroneous teachings?

Ya, you bet :-)
I believe that what the Lord said to His disciples still rings true to this day - that is, to stay in a certain place, and wait for the Holy Ghost to come upon you, before going out into the world to do His mighty work. For it is better to have Him do it through one in His Love and power, than have one do it themselves, thinking God is with them when He isn't - my reference being that when many will say to Christ, and even believing by a strong, false delusion that they did many works for Him, but He responds, "I never knew you."
Better to sit at His feet than do many things out of the wrong spirit... Even what could be considered good things in themselves.
I'm not implying that this is your case, but truly the Lord said in His Word, that this will be, and is the case of many.


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Richie

 2011/12/22 23:36Profile
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 Re: A question about separating oneself from erroneous teachings?

Lindi1208,

The problem with separating yourself too much is that you will end up very much alone. When you think about it, no one believes exactly as you do, and everyone hears the message with a different ear. Maybe you would be more effective in your dealings with other Christians by just saying something like, "I don't see it that way."

Believe me, I have argued to facial blueness over a lot of issues inside the larger umbrella of Christian thought. When Sonny Bono was living and serving in Congress I was privileged to be chatting with him one day, and he had this observation:

"Just one time I'd like for one of my fellow congressmen to say, 'Gee, that's a great argument. I think I'll change my vote!'"

I don't know if he ever got to hear that before he died.

Not something you hear very often, but I keep trying. I have had the experience of making a major change in my Theological perspective by the witness of one man who I know loved me and showed me better things than what I had thought were taught in the Bible. I learned to "Buy the truth, and sell it not!"

But stay in the conversations, and let the joy of Christ be evident to your friends. The words you want to hear are "Whatever it is that you have, I want some!" You'll never hear that if you separate yourself.

Sometimes the only cure for "Word of Faith" people is the occasional bus that runs over them. Unfortunately, they often feel so betrayed by God that they abandon Him completely. Better to approach life with a desire to know Christ as Paul describes in Phil. 3:10 with the power of His resurrection and also the fellowship of His sufferings. Life will bring both!

Later in chapter 4 he mentions that being able to be content in both want and prosperity was a secret he'd learned. Not everyone figures it out!

Stay confident and keep smiling- He has given you the people in front of you!


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Tom Cameron

 2011/12/22 23:38Profile
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 Re: A question about separating oneself from erroneous teachings?

QUOTE:
"I personally have no care for material things just would rather be spiritually rich and trust the Lord to provide for all my needs even the smallest and he faithfully provides all the time."

My dear, I hope you still are working?

QUOTE:
"I was just wondering if some of you have had similar experiences whereby you felt led to separate yourself from a body of believers, because the greatest commandment after loving The Lord our God is to love one another."

Discouragement will do this to a person. I also get weary of meeting people - so much I think that holing up in a mountain cabin for a year would be so relaxing - I would not have to meet people and talk with them. When I tell my brother this he says, "Sandra, you could never live like that!" and I am sure he is right. Having said all this, Jesus did remove himself physically from his friends for brief periods of time and spent that time with the Father - he need that time to rejuvenate himself. Since he is the Messiah and he needed it, how much more do we need it? Lots more. So, then the best solution, IMHO, is to quit looking inward and start looking upward and take your cues from Him in how to respond to life and matters of faith. Find someone who is in worse shape then you and see what you can do to ease their load in life. This is Jesus' way.

God bless.


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Sandra Miller

 2011/12/23 8:35Profile
lindi1208
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Thank you all for your edification! @ginnyrose I am a student nurse full time God willingly will be finishing training within the next year so in the last three years have been learning to trust God to supply all my needs according to the riches of his Grace : ).I do belong to a small church that is biblically based and sound doctrinally but I also want to fellowship with other believers in other churches hence in so doing have met many WOF exhorters so when I asked the question about separating myself from their lives I will not be completely isolated! Sorry I did not clarify this earlier on. I totally agree with you and others that at times in our walk we need to get alone with Jesus and shut the world away! Ah the Joy of sweet quiet fellowship with Jesus in prayer and bible reading nothing can supersede these blessed moments of quiet time with Jesus! Also ministering to others in love truth and encouragement keeps us vital and full of joy and love for one another : ).


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Lindi

 2011/12/24 3:40Profile
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 Re: A question about separating oneself from erroneous teachings?

Just to take one more look at the original premise, we must remember that no one goes to some church because they enjoy the erroneous teaching there. They go because they like the teaching, believe it to be true, and push it at others.

In reality, none of us has the whole truth, and most won't argue with that. And every sect and movement has elements of truth along with some nonsense- the trick is to hold fast to what is good while at the same time allowing it to be washed by the Word of God. For me, I have had whole dirt clods blown off my theology when something better rings in my heart.

It's fun to look yourself in the mirror and tell God,

"I believe some nonsense. But I don't know what that is. Would you show me truth from your Word that will get rid of whatever keeps me from being conformed to the image of Jesus?"


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Tom Cameron

 2011/12/24 17:40Profile
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 Re: A question about separating oneself from erroneous teachings?

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In essence they love Jesus but are embracing another gospel one( they often tell me I need demons to be cast out of me because I often face trials and tribulations,persecutions my life ought to be health, wealth, prosperous evidenced by material possession etc).



This is Chapter 1 in church abuse 101, ridiculous.

You are right in not associating with them and you are in good company, they called Jesus the price of devils.

My wife and I have left churches for this exact reason, very quietly and people felt the same way towards us even though we told no one why we left. I guess they felt rejected by us when we left and didn't mention why, oh well, no worries there.

It's bizarre how someone gets saved in a church like this and they point him to Abraham and his wealth, totally discarding the fact that Jesus and all of the apostles died physically poor but spiritually rich. Wouldn't it be best to stay within the current contract (covenant)?

Much peace and Merry Christmas!

 2011/12/24 19:43Profile
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hi, follow after no man who doesn't have nail prints in his hands and feet. these teachers are mostly deceived and have some truth... any truth carried to extreems is error.keep the truth forgive the errors and the people and pray that God opens the eyes of those who are deceived and save those who are wickedly profiting over the body of Christ. i knew ken hagin and heard him many times.i read all the same books by kenyon and in them there is a lot of truth.these were fine men who did a great deal in their time that was good .hagins message was have the faith of God or the God kind of faith and speak to the mountain. the point here is (the difference between faith and presumption is a directive word from God to you personnally.)only speak to it if God tells you to speak to it.only build an ark if God tells you to build it.these other men who i have met and know are carried away in extreems that lead to personal profit.the judgement seat is going to be something ...jimp

 2011/12/24 22:50Profile
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Hey Lindi1208,

I understand completely where you are coming from as I am in the same situation. For me I am stuck betweem a rock and a hard place! But this has been good because under this pressure the Lord has helped me to grow so much! I am called specifically to be both in an extremely religious church and I am also part of aSpirit filled church with some sketch beliefs. Allow me to take explain I hope this will encourage you!

With me where I am from the church is really against anything remotely having to do with the Power of the Holy Spirit. It is very conservative and religious. Faith has been rules and regulations. I grew up in this church but everything changed for me very quickly after the Lord saved me and Baptised me with the Holy Spirit! It was like a veil was lifted from my eyes and I could see how desperate the situation at my church was! Of course just having eyes opened to the spiritual turmoil made me react very strongly to a lot of things and I said and did things that may not have been the wisest though it was with good intentions but the Lord was faithful through it. It has been really hard to stay in the church because so few people understand and I am judged a lot. The hardest part is going to service on sunday's I shiver at that it is greiving to my heart that sometimes I cannot bring myself to walk in. I stay in the prayer room and pray. That being said there are also many who truly hunger for more of Christ and God has used me to encourage them. They are really into Reformed movement Its really bad because I feel so stuck but I also want these people to be FREE!

NOw around this time I also started Post Secondary Education! I was looking for a good Campus group and soo went to every single one. I walked into one and I just knew tht GOd was there! I felt a unity! I was a bit taken aback that everyone was speaking in tongues and I didnt think they should do it in public so much but I knew that they were brothers and sisters. It is this fellowship that has been such a source of encouragement, confusion and frustration! On onehand I saw for sure that there people had the Spirit of God in them and hearing their testimomies is so encouraging! they go evangelizing 4 days a week and love to worship and pray! We have all night prayer meetings every friday night!

I loved it I could be free to worship the Lord so decided to overlook tongues though I did talk to the leader about it.

However things started to become confusing as I started to become more invovled! The group believes a lot of doctrines that are questionable. They are very Charasmatic and very influeced by the prophetic movement that is stirring (ihop soe WOF stuff mixed in to)

This really turned me off and made me not want to be a part of the group anymore however, I knew so many believers in there that I enjyed sweet fellowship with!

I prayed a lot and was angry and frutrated and confused!
I was stuck I did not quite belong anywhere!

But God has been giving be strength in this
I used to question myself and wondered why I was so alone!

I believe some stuff from either side and see the good and bad.

There were times when I would give up but I knew the truth that God was showing me! and I came to conclusion that I just need to speak what God has shown me! this has given me much freedom and joy!

God showed me something that needs correction and in order to be able to change these things I need to be able to OPEN MY HEART to both these people and love them while speaking truth! The BIGGESTEST temptation was to withhold my heart from these people but it was the ONE THING that God wanted me to give and that was needed

SO with one group I talk alot about the Holy Sprit and with the other I talk a lot n sound doctrine to go along with the Spirit.

As I open my heart to these people and talk to them I found that it works WONDERS! I have seen God work in it! and i know that I need to open more of myself an be bold to speak more truth in order for the body to be completely restored.

hope this helps
IN Chist
Evangel

 2011/12/24 22:56Profile





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