The B I B L EThreat Vectors: Being Biblical in the Post-Biblical Age 5.12.2024

Baseline Scriptural Mandate

2 Timothy 4:3–4 (ESV)

3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

My favorite quote of the year…

Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus Decisions on the Issues

What narcissism drives the feeling that we or our kind have to be found in every text?

Distractions

Trivialization

“Worship-tainment”

Exaggeration.

Novelty.

Distortions

The “peril” of pentecostalism.

Focus on immediacy and the present at the expense of history, precedent, and consequences.

Focus on a “gifted” leader rather than the Lord.

Focus on individually tailored revelation rather than scripture.

New Apostolic Reformation

Not new, not apostolic, not a reformation

New Prophecy

God gave me a...

Word

Scripture.

Vision.

Dream.

“God told Me”

God told me.

God told ME!

Post-Modern prophets

Focus on “Prosperity Doctrine”.

Premillennialism.

Schizophrenic Theologies

Lack of cognitive dissonance.

Reductionism.

Deception

Revived Heresies.

The way of the crass vs. the way of the Cross.

Bold indiscretion