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Introduction:
Allan Savory the ecologist who killed 40000 elephants because it was believed that grazing was causing the desertification of Africa, only to find out later that elephants were essential to prevent desertification.
On New Year’s Day, 1962, Brian Epstein, the manager of an unheralded musical group, took his young talents to audition with Decca Records at their studios in West Hampstead, North London.
After setting up, tuning and stringing their guitars, and clearing their throats, Epstein’s group performed about 15 songs before Dick Rowe, a senior Decca executive and the record label’s chief talent spotter.
After the audition, Mr. Rowe decided to pass on signing the group, with the airy remark that “Guitar groups are on the way out, Mister Epstein“.
Forsaking the gospel is life’s greatest folly.
Foolish: unintelligent, dull-witted, stupid, senseless, ignorant
J.B. Phillips in his famed translation stated it this way,
O you dear idiots of Galatia...
A corrupt gospel can be powerfully seductive.
Bewitched - The “Evil Eye” - The Greeks had a great fear of a spell cast by the evil eye.
A corrupt gospel has the church under the power of an evil spell.
The Prosperity Gospel
Mormonism
The Jehovah’s Witnesses...
There are millions that are under the spell.
“People do not knowingly join “cults” that will ultimately destroy and kill them.
People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus dinner socials, and the like, in an effort to be a part of something larger than themselves.
It is mostly the innocent and naive who find themselves entrapped.
In their openhearted endeavor to find meaning in their lives, they walk blindly into the promise of ultimate answers and a higher purpose.
It is usually only gradually that a group turns into or reveals itself as a cult, becomes malignant, but by then it is often too late.”
Deborah Layton, Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
Religious performance is not a gospel component.
Is there any part of me that is trusting in anything other than Jesus?
Is my faith in my church membership?
Is my faith in my church stewardship?
Is my faith in my position of leadership?
Is my faith in my family relationship?
Who has a legitimate claim to be part of God’s family?
The people of faith are the people of God.
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