If you haven’t updated your rss feed from this one to nathancreitz.net, I would encourage you to do so now. I have been writing blog posts for a couple of months now on my new blog and wanted to check in here at ChurchETHOS to remind you of the change.

My most recent post is about how to deal with “deviations from the truth”. In other words, nearly every day there is another false teaching from bloggers, authors, or preachers. From Rob Bell’s Protestant version of purgatory to Harold Camping’s teaching that Judgment Day is this Saturday, we are inundated with controversial teaching. So, do we call them out? Do we call them names? I think Paul had something else in mind in 2 Timothy 2:14-26. Here’s an excerpt from my latest post:

But there are some issues that come up that challenge the basis of the faith. When truth is contradicted or discarded it is important to actively defend it.

Rob Bell’s teachings fall into this category. He is “destroying the faith of some” and his careless words will lead to his and others ruin. Yet, our response to him must be done in love and gentleness. Rather than lash out in anger, we need to pray that Bell will come to his senses.

Consider some of the thoughts from this passage about false teachers:

And their word will spread like gangrene; (2:17)

They have deviated from the truth…and are overturning the faith of some. (2:18)

The post is entitled Rob Bell, Harold Camping, and Deviations from the Truth. Read it and make sure to update your feed reader from ChurchETHOS to nathancreitz.net!