Featured The great sin of evangelicals

There's an old saying that goes something like this, "When the only tool in your shed is a hammer the whole world starts to look like a nail."

Hammers come in all shapes and sizes. You got claw hammers, rip hammers and framing hammers. You have old ways hammers that insist you aren't a real hammer unless you have a 16 ounce head and an ash handle. You have the ergonomic handled hammers, leather wrapped handled hammers and a few mis-handled hammers. You have hammers that have undergone a remarkable transformation having two new heads and four new handles in their lifetime.

You got little tiny brad hammers, brad hammers that think they are sledge hammers that turn their backs on those fancy modern pneumatic hammers.

Hammers are a snooty sort. They look down at all the other tools in the shed. They mock ratchets and pipes and scraps of iron that try to be hammers. They tell the saws and screwdrivers they are inferior to the hammer. "Hahaha!", says the hammer to the clamp. "You miserable little tool."

Whether you are a slimy rock pulled from the riverbank or an 19 ounce Estwing mill-faced Ultra series, black handled hammer you are just one tool in the shed and all you can do is pound. Everything.

I thank God today that not all of His children are called to be hammers.

 

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On that, Evan, you are absolutely correct. I just hope you apply it to yourself and trust the scriptures over what Ray Comfort, Paul Washer, Richard Roberts, and Robert Peterson have to say about the scriptures. Last I checked, all four of those men are just as fallible as any man woman or child posting on this board.

 

Being convinced by scripture is different from having a man convince you of what scripture supposedly means

 

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Don't forget your little stool when you see the light and follow Way of the Evan.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG0mt25_JeU

 

That's the thing--many don't believe that Jonah's methods are workable in today's age.

I already told you--they are experienced, godly men that pastor churches. Why do you post on this board? Why not go find Comfort's forum or Washer's website and interact with your heroes?

OK, show us where the Bible says we are to confront false teachers with letter writing campaigns? Or confronting them verbally? Go on....

 

Are Denver, New York, San Francisco, LA, Dallas, Houston, and Chicago without Christians and Churches. God sent Jonah to Nineveh. God can send people where he wishes. But He did not call me to run around telling people whom I don't know they are hell-bound unless they do so-and-so!

 

Amen. We should all be studying the Bible, not just a book about the Bible, or in this case about a topic that the Bible talks about.

 

Where are the Bible verses urging us to engage in letter writing campaigns? To confront false teachers?

 

Regardless of what Evan says I believe that only God can convict a person of sin. Then perhaps someone will be able to talk to them about Jesus Christ as at least one one on this thread has said. {Perhaps more, I simply scanned quickly and was impressed by what padredurand said.}

 

If Evan was as serious as he says, he would not be "challenging" this board, he would be spending every minute out on the street barking at people on his little stool.

 

Precisely. If Evan would read the book of Jonah rather than read about what someone thinks the book of Jonah says, he might find out that Jonah was sent to Nineveh to preach against the violence and evil they were doing so that God would spare their city from destruction. He was not on a mission to evangelize them to the Jewish beliefs, per se.

 

For sure.

In our Wed night bible study I lead, I am constantly telling the people to get into the scriptures. Don't take my word for it. Investigate. Context....scripture, scripture, scripture

A couple of weeks ago, a lady spoke up with "hold on a minute. I'm not sure the context supports what you're drawing out of this passage."

I was referencing a short parenthetical insert, which was not in keeping with the larger context. So we stopped, she read the entire passage, and came to the conclusion that I had used that portion of scripture accurately.

So she started apologizing for interrupting, for questioning me, etc.

I told her that what she did made my heart sing. She valued scripture over my opinion. She was investigating context, everything I've been telling them for a year. Trust scripture over man. My words might tickle your ears, but God's word will renew your mind.

 

James, that is beautiful. I've had similar experiences in the Sunday School classes I've taught. It is great to see people relying on the scripture instead of the teacher. Amen, brother.

 

and Amen, brother