The easiest and most effortless level of discernment is the assessment of others. But the most difficult and arduous level is found in a mirror and not in a telescope.
Rick Frueh circa A.D. 2009
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Another one for the collection! The most revealing mirror of all, of course, is His Word. Read it and weep.
I cannot see a New Testament calling that is exclusively for discernment. All preachers and pastors should have a discernment element in their ministries.
But when a person is constantly looking for things like that, it tends to mold a person's thought process and eventually he is susceptible to nitpicking and self righteousness, and his relationship with Christ can easily become cold and doctrinal.
One thing I do see in the New Testament is that the Pharisees of Jesus' time thought they had a so-called discernment ministry, too. (Among other things.) We know where that led.
Online discernment ministries alerted me to the apostasy currently rampant in the church (of which i was totally ignorant - not having attended a church for 10yrs and only recently coming back to loving Jesus. God is faithful!). So, I am grateful that they exist and have tried to use some discernment myself in testing what they say. I believe that it is good to have watchmen in the body and that the warning they sound encourages me to be prepared for what might lie ahead before Jesus returns.
Online discernment ministries alerted me to the apostasy currently rampant in the church (of which i was totally ignorant - not having attended a church for 10yrs and only recently coming back to loving Jesus. God is faithful!). So, I am grateful that they exist and have tried to use some discernment myself in testing what they say. I believe that it is good to have watchmen in the body and that the warning they sound encourages me to be prepared for what might lie ahead before Jesus returns.
Additional communications to me may be e-mailed to spcrick@msn.com. Any negative e-mails will be deleted without response, however sincere questions will be answered. I seek edification and deeper knowledge of Christ and His truth not a destructive and meaningless religious chatter. May God's Spirit open all of our hearts to Him.
I am an ordained Baptist minister but more importantly I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. I was saved in 1975 watching Billy Graham on television after having lived a wicked and Christless life. I graduated with a three year degree from Trinity Bible College in Dunedin, Florida. I have three children, two grandsons, and one granddaughter. I not only see the obvious falling away of the present day church, but I humbly acknowledge that we all are in desperate need of a massive revival. I hope this blog ministers to you, and may Jesus Himself receive all the preeminence!
spcrick@msn.com
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Another one for the collection! The most revealing mirror of all, of course, is His Word. Read it and weep.
online discernment "ministries" = virtual busybodies
I cannot see a New Testament calling that is exclusively for discernment. All preachers and pastors should have a discernment element in their ministries.
But when a person is constantly looking for things like that, it tends to mold a person's thought process and eventually he is susceptible to nitpicking and self righteousness, and his relationship with Christ can easily become cold and doctrinal.
One thing I do see in the New Testament is that the Pharisees of Jesus' time thought they had a so-called discernment ministry, too. (Among other things.) We know where that led.
Online discernment ministries alerted me to the apostasy currently rampant in the church (of which i was totally ignorant - not having attended a church for 10yrs and only recently coming back to loving Jesus. God is faithful!). So, I am grateful that they exist and have tried to use some discernment myself in testing what they say. I believe that it is good to have watchmen in the body and that the warning they sound encourages me to be prepared for what might lie ahead before Jesus returns.
Online discernment ministries alerted me to the apostasy currently rampant in the church (of which i was totally ignorant - not having attended a church for 10yrs and only recently coming back to loving Jesus. God is faithful!). So, I am grateful that they exist and have tried to use some discernment myself in testing what they say. I believe that it is good to have watchmen in the body and that the warning they sound encourages me to be prepared for what might lie ahead before Jesus returns.
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