I was just emailing a good friend from SI telling them about this and i thought i would post it here to share with you for your prayers:
Today I went to a city wide mens event (in England) and was so grieved at what the Lord's people were fed. It was just big talk, inspirational, motivational talk, but with no substance, it was empty words. It wasnt grounded in the word, it was not teaching that accords with and leads to godliness. And the worst thing was that nearly everyone loved it :( Oh how you could weep for God's church, what a poor state she is in. They are so naive, they are babes tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine.
Oh i thank God that I have the truth, that He has taught me and grounded me in His truth so that i can spot error, when others cant. I am pleased that a friend of mine, Dave, who is a guy on my youth leaders team and someone i have been getting alongside recently and studying 'The Pleasures of God with', discerned it without me saying anything. He thought it was not worth listening to and so he read his bible instead! Praise God, that was 2 of us, i hope and pray there were more, but it didnt seem like there were many.
The speaker said 'God hates 2 things', one is the colour beige and the other thing is volvo's because they are so safe'. I was thinking 'scripture references please, because the Bible does say God hates some things but they are not mentioned'.
He was encouraging men to be colourful, outrageous, daring Christians who are creative etc (all sounds good) but never did he define what that means, he didnt teach from the Bible but just said what he wanted to say. There was no mention really of what it means to be a man of God, nothing about holiness, godliness, righteousness, fighting God's battles, furthering His Kingdom, aggressively praying and interceding- there was nothing like that mentioned.
And worst of all he encouraged men to go back to the cross and rummage in some of the things they left there, and find the 'real you' again. He said most men get saved and become boring, and that the old you was ok, and we need to rediscover that old spark (I paraphrase here, although in his defence, he did mention that he did not mean pick up the sins you left again). This is the complete opposite of what the Bible teaches and what the Lord has been teaching me lately. That in me there dwells no good thing and that I am a great hindrance to the work of God. I need to revisit the cross but not to pick things up but to lay my life down and surrender control totally so that Christ may live in me.
I get so sad at the rubbish that is being taught under the name of Christianity today and how many people are drawn in by it.
I didnt stay for the second session, but went home and read my Bible, and God really met me there, i learnt far more there than in this mans whole hour talk.
I reject this 'preaching' for good sound preaching like Keith Daniel- there is no comparison, i wonder if a lot of Christians cant tell truth from error because they have never heard pure undiluted truth from someone like Keith Daniel, and of course these dear people dont know their Bibles. They are so vulnerable.
Saints, we must pray for Christs real church, for His people- that they will not be deceived and sucked into false or unprofitable teaching. We must lament the state of the church before God and pray He raises up sound teachers of the Word who rightly divide the Word of truth. Please pray for England, things are in a real bad state here, I know there are some really sound men of God in America (although I am sure they are the minority) but in England you have to travel really far to hear good sound preaching that leads to godliness, there is such a famine of the Word of God here, please pray for us, I beg you.
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George Platt
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