Dissonant Voices in the Church

There are so many competing voices within the Christian Church that it is difficult to distinguish the faithful from the fakers and the true servants from the charlatans. The voices which are the loudest and those who claim the ears of the many are those who depend upon spectacle and wonder to enchant their listeners.

In many ways they become the purported mouthpiece of God, the direct conduit through which God speaks a “fresh” word from His Throne room.

A generation of deceived and confused believers laboring under the fallacious notion that so-called and self-proclaimed “anointed” men and women can be more, say something more than the inspired Word of God. What of the Bible, as the inspired Word of God? What about Jesus who is the Word made flesh?

Do we need a “Fresh” word? More importantly, can there be a “fresh” word from God? Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the author and finisher of our faith. If He is indeed, as the Scriptures profess, the last word then are we not simply echoes of the revealed Word, Jesus Christ. We are at our best, our most effective as ministers by beinga clear, resonatingecho of Jesus Christ. We are the instrument of The Holy Spirit through whom the message of hope is delivered.

God tells us in 2^nd Peter 1:20&21, “Above all, you must realize that no prophecy in Scriptures ever came from the prophet’s own understanding, or from human initiative. No those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God.”

What can we say about the state of Christians in the 21^st Century? We can say that the simple and pure Gospel of the resurrected Savior has been clouded, convoluted and confused by the dissonant, yet charismatic voices of philandering false prophets.

What is the simple and pure Gospel of Jesus Christ? It is, that, God Loved His creation so much that He through His son put on the life of mortality and lived under the law to break the power of sin over flesh and human life. Because of Christ we are made free.  This is the Gospel.

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