Great Lies

It's been a while since my last post, and I need to be studying, so of course I'm writing a blog post...

So I was cruising youtube watching clips of evangelists trying to discern how evangelism should be done and I found some videos by one Monica Dennington and found myself very distressed. The videos I have watched have been about denying fellowship to Calvinists because they are divisive. That alone should raise some eyebrows. Is the Gospel, when dutifully preached, divisive? What about Christ specifically telling us not to worry when we are rejected because the world first rejected him? Are we called to live in peace with the world? Are we called to agree with the world, and everyone of it? NO! Yet Mrs. Dennington preaches (a separate issue unto itself) a half and half Armenian and Calvinistic view all the while twisting the Holy word of God to support her belief that anyone who vocalizes disagreement should be put out of fellowship. Sound Catholic much? Please, if you have heard her on youtube, give no credence to her. She says to "read your bible and do what it says" as if to say that she is doing so, but all the while she denies exegetical teachings and examining context. (until she reaches the part about a woman not being above a man...queue the 'exegesis' and 'context' then...)

I do wish to now address some of the lies I have heard from her unto themselves. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that who-so-ever believes in him shall have eternal life". Many people use this as some kind of justification that anyone whom confesses a belief in Christ is saved. This is one of the greatest lies in Christendom. All those who believe are saved, however not all those who confess Christ are believers in the sense that this verse puts forward. She exhorts her viewers to not listen to Calvinists because we supposedly place trust in the flesh because we read religious books other than the bible, and because we listen to the teachings of Calvinists. She accuses us of placing faith in flesh and refusing to bow at the feet of Christ! Calvanists have done nothing BUT denounce the flesh and bow to Christ! The biggest lie that she has told is this mindset that Calvinists are dividing the body. She (and many others) think that being divisive is bad. (Ignoring the side rant that the gospel IS divisive.) There is this mentality that a person can divide the body of Christ. This is not so! The body of Christ, the true church and communion of true believers cannot be divided because Christ does not lose any that are given to him. Any who are divided away from the body of Christ never were part of the body. In the same fashion, she can't divide Calvinists from the body of Christ, she can (and by this I mean the Holy Spirit working through her) and only separate herself from the body of Christ.

I leave you now with the exhortation to be wary of false teachers and to cling to God, the rock from which you were cut.

Soli Deo Gloria