Pastor's Corner

for Sunday April 25th
If you have questions there is a book that will answer that question for you. If you don’t want to buy a book, just “Google” the question and there will be more information than you can handle. What we’ve got to figure out is who can be trusted to give us the correct answer. If I Google “God” and all this stuff comes up about God, who can be trusted to give me the truth about God - who He is and how I am to connect with Him. Last week I said I would suggest five questions that we need to ask when reading or watching someone on TV tell us how to get close to God. Here’s the first question: what do they do with the bible? Do they turn to the bible to tell us about God or do they tell us their thoughts on God? When you hear, “Well I think God is like...” you are getting conjecture, and conjecture is fun. You sit quietly and let your thoughts ramble back and forth and you come up with some pretty cool ideas on what you think God is like. But that’s all it is - your thoughts-conjecture-it’s not truth. There is only one place to go for information on God and that’s what God Himself has revealed about Himself in the bible. Don’t follow someone’s “thoughts” about God, have them show you from the bible what God Himself has revealed about Himself. Have the bible tell you what God likes and what He doesn’t like; what makes Him happy and what makes Him angry. But you see that’s where things get sticky. The bible teaches us stuff about God that we don’t like and so we prefer to go with someone’s opinions about God because they usually come up with a very passive, weak God. A God who is not offended at sin; a God who turns a blind eye to the wickedness of men; a God who saves everybody and punishes nobody. So here are my options: I can believe in the God of my conjecture or I can believe in the God of the bible. Guess which one is the real God. So if you’re reading a book that’s small on the bible and big on conjecture - read another book.
Pastor Don.