Building my theology. Word.

It may seem ridiculos to have to say, but I need to build my beliefs on the word of God. Today, people take their beliefs from some very unreliable sources. They form their entire life philosophies around advertising statements, movie stories, friends opinions, books by self-help authors. Many people admit they just live their life on a hunch, they go with their gut, they believe whatever makes sense. But none of those sources are anchored in anything of value, of reliability and consistency.

We can’t build our theology on whatever hot book, seminar, or internet site we find. We must anchor ourselves in the word of God. Remember the disciples of Berea? [acts 17:10] Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

We must join the Berean fellowship. Not a group of cycnical, podcasting, blogging critiques, who fling mud and tear down every other pastor/teacher they analyze on t.v. or online. We’re not called to police everyone’s teaching that’s out there. And we’re certainly not empowered to disregard our pastor’s teaching on a weekly basis till we see how we feel. But we are to carefully weigh what we hear, hold it to the light, filter it through scripture. This kind of active listening will strengthen the teaching of our church, and guard us from virus-teaching that may eat its way through our doctrine.