He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. (John 10:12-13).
(Seth Brickley – TruthScript) A number of years ago, Jerry Bridges wrote a book titled Respectable Sins. In it, he explains that Christians view certain sins as taboo while overlooking others. For example, everyone knows that theft is bad, but sins such as bitterness, gossip, slander, and lack of self-control are often overlooked….
Recently Steve Lawson was removed from ministry because of a five-year relationship with a woman a third his age. Pastors and Christians were understandably outraged hearing the news that Lawson was living a double life while pastoring and carrying out numerous ministries. But it has occurred to me that there is a particularly serious sin in pastoral ministry in America right now, but it’s become a “respectable one.” Pastors hold down their positions and preach week after week, but there is no life in their ministry. They carry on a form of religion but deny its power (2 Timothy 3:5). They remain in their positions, but they are truly disqualified men.
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 such as David Platt