Would You Put Dirt in Your Cookies? A Spiritual Question

Suppose a cook correctly followed a cookie recipe except she replaced a teaspoon of salt with a teaspoon of dirt. Would you eat her cookies and recommend them to others?

What if someone correctly presented the gospel except they replaced a "teaspoon" of truth with a "teaspoon" of error? Would you trust that presentation and recommend it to others?

Sadly, many Christians are more careful with cookies than the gospel—defending teaspoons, tablespoons, and full cups of "dirt" in gospel presentations (2 Corinthians 11:3-4).

 

This puts them in a dangerous position. Instead of holding firmly to the sword of the Spirit, they're walking around unarmed (Ephesians 6:10-18; Hebrews 4:12).

If you aren't aware of Christians prioritizing popular resources above God's Word, try explaining the errors in Jesus Calling, The Shack, The Chosen, The Passion Translation, The Message, or Boundaries to a group of Christians. You'll find that many of them will excuse or defend small errors, blind to the fact that Satan is most successful when he mixes a teaspoon of error with a batch of truth.

If he can get Christians to defend a little dirt, he knows they'll eventually lose their saltiness.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” Matthew 5:13

The only way we can maintain our saltiness is to defend God's Word, not man's words.

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To see the most recent “dirt” that Jenkins needlessly included in The Chosen and to see his attitude when corrected, see Jenkins's Increasing Disrespect for God's Word.

 

Note: If you point out errors in these popular resources, be prepared for backlash. It won't make you popular. But Christianity never has been and never will be about popularity (John 15:18-21). In fact, when a resource is popular with both Christians and non-Christians (as most of those I mentioned are), it's typically because it's an inaccurate representation of God and His Word.

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