My Hurting Heart

Last night I struggled to fall asleep.  As usual there was too much on my mind.  The new song the worship team will be singing on Sunday morning was running through  my head, thoughts about meetings from the day and future meetings for this week.  But most of all the topic of Rob Bell was on my mind.  I can say that right now my heart hurts.  It hurts for Rob being mislead and misleading so many others.

The other day I read a post by a two friends accusing those who are questioning Rob Bell's "new" thoughts in his book to being in the same theological boat as Joel Olsteen.  How can two friends, who are seminary trained, be so caught up in Rob Bell's words that they forget what scripture says about Heaven, Hell, and the fate of every person who ever lived?  But scripture makes it clear that people will be decieved and stray from the truth.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 (ESV) ^"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, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."

But we are not to be dismayed.  We are given a command to preach the gospel in the midst of deceit.

2 Timothy 4:1-2 (ESV) I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

It is the gosopel that is our solid foundation in times of crisis.  God is still in control and no matter how many people speak against the truth it does not make the truth irrelevant or false.  God is still God and the elect are still His children.  So, in the midst of this seeminly dark time in the history of the truth, God's word endures.  His church will still be known and the true Gospel of Christ will be heard.