Oh Joel, Joel: "narrow is the gate...."
I can’t recommend this sermon by Paul Washer enough:
“We Have Forgotten that the Way is Narrow”
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10507846480
It can watched, downloaded in multiple formats or streamed for free. You can also find it on youtube. If you are trusting in a prayer you prayed long ago for your salvation, you are desperately in need of this sermon. Few things scare me as much as the idea of a false profession. Scripture tells us to examine ourselves to be sure that we are in the faith.
If you cannot tolerate the unvarnished truth, don’t bother listening because he will make you angry.
I can’t recommend this sermon by Paul Washer enough:
“We Have Forgotten that the Way is Narrow”
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10507846480
It can be watched, downloaded in multiple formats or streamed for free. You can also find it on youtube. If you are trusting in a prayer you prayed long ago for your salvation, you are desperately in need of this sermon. Few things scare me as much as the idea of a false profession. Scripture tells us to examine ourselves to be sure that we are in the faith.
If you cannot tolerate the unvarnished truth, don’t bother listening because he will make you angry.
He’s “trying to reach the biggest, broadest group” who buy books.
It’ sad what’s happened to Christianity. I’ve seen pastors that I KNEW were speaking the truth who have gone off the tracks. I know one who said he’d never do a TV show but he praises a bunch of preachers who are on TV. And he is now constantly “tweeting”. In one “tweet” he was tweeting from a church “getting ready to hear a young mentor’s sermon”. I wonder how he would feel if half the people in church starting talking on their cell phones while he’s preaching.
Why did they call on Joel to ask questions about Romney, because he doesn’t say anything negative about anyone. And you really think he knows what Mormonism teaches? I only found a few things recently. He’s is not a studier of cults or other religions. He is to focus his study on God’s Word.
Mitt is a bishop of a cult. It’s NOTHING about God no matter how many times they utter ‘God’. Would they have any followers if they said the truth ‘Joe Smith’?
If someone claims to believe “that Jesus is the son of God, that He’s the Christ, that He was raised from the dead and is his savior, that’s good enough for me.”
Note he did not say that the Mormon church met the test or Romney, he merely stated what he says the test should be.
Second, for those listening who have no idea what Christianity is, he stated it so that the lost can hear the gospel.
I have complaints about Olsteen's theology but his reported handling of this is not one of them. In some way it reminded me of how Jesus handled the question of giving alms to Caesar. Instead of answering in a way that would cause division, Jesus answered by defining the terms.