I'm Only A Messenger

                 I have been successful at times with these posts in at least one way....for every once in a while I ask the regular readers to move on....away from these posts......and don't you know.....some do move on. Here is why I feel it necessary to make such a strange request. I spend a fair amount of time warning people to move on who have come under the mind control of talk radio hosts and Fox cable personalities and podcasts....warning them to start thinking on their own.....and formulating their own thoughts. It is no different with me and these posts.
                I point people to ministries such as ligonier.org and desiringgod.org and gty.org and whitehorseinn.org....but even here you have to eventually be able to read God's Word on your own. This is a problem in most of our churches as pastors preach expositionally....where they take a Bible verse and expound on it by giving great detail.....but it's a verse that we all should be able to do this on our own. The pastor thinks that he is doing a great job....and we think he is doing a great job.....and everyone is really just spinning their wheels. We need topical preaching....of whatever the Holy Spirit puts on the pastor's mind....for right now these pastors would be warning.....and warning.....but instead they are in bondage to preaching through this or that book. Maybe there was a day that this could be done....but not today....not with the church asleep.
               I'm only a messenger folks....with continuous messages like....you have to be born again....literally.....born again.....or in spite of your decades in the church Jesus will surprise you and say to you on that day that He does not know you.....and messages like....Jesus is coming back soon.....literally soon....Webster's definition of 'soon'.....and  warnings such as....Donald Trump is a genuine biblical false prophet.....a literal false prophet! Accept the messages or not.....you've been warned.
               If you stay here then you are not growing.....and possibly becoming dependent.....or maybe it is a laziness. You have got to be able to verify....and find out answers on your own. You have got to be able to help others in the process. It's time to leap out of the nest and test those wings out.
               If I haven't convinced you of some of these things....then you are probably never to be convinced anyway....so why waste your time? We have enough followers in the church. We need leaders....and we need people able to stand alone if necessary....and you are never going to be a leader if you just sit and listen to a podcast....or regularly tune in this talk show host....or read this or that pundit who makes a great living getting you to depend on their opinions....and you are never going to be able to stand alone if necessary.....if you if you cannot even think for yourselves.