In modern times, R. C. Sproul often said, “To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God.”
(Warren Cole Smith – MinistryWatch) On Monday, I drove from my home in Charlotte to Greenville, S.C., to have dinner with one of MinistryWatch’s long-time supporters, someone who has over the years also become a friend. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska, but he was visiting family in South Carolina. The fact that he was so close was an opportunity I could not pass up.
At the end of a pleasant and encouraging two-hour dinner, we walked to the parking lot and prepared to get in our cars. My friend asked, “How can I pray for you?” I answered with a phrase that may sound like a “canned answer,” a cliché, but — for me — is not. I answered, “Greg, pray that I finish well.”
The idea of finishing well has been on my mind a lot lately. The nature of our work here is that sometimes we cover Christian leaders who do not finish well. We got another tragic example this week—Philip Yancey, a Christian leader whose books have sold at least 15 million copies. Yancey, who is 76 years old and has Parkinson’s disease, was in sight of the finish line of his race. But he will now be remembered — following his confession of an eight-year extramarital affair — as a man who did not finish well.
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18
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