Been thinking about Jonah and Paul a lot lately. Jonah, he waited to see an entire town be destroyed. He did not joy in the repentance, nor did he expect it. I do not want to be Jonah. I would rather those who are following after the wrong path repent, turn and follow after the narrow way…and come to the Father through Jesus Christ by the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Jonah was speaking to those who were not even trying to be people of God. The ones I am most concerned about now are those who taught me for the past several years. I looked to them for spiritual food and teaching (not only them, I did my own reading and study but not near enough). If I love them, I will pray for their repentance. They may think I’m deluded and arrogant, they may even think I need to repent. Maybe so, and if so, let me be convicted. Truly.
Paul, this man wrote letters to churches engaged in activities that seem obviously sinful to us now. In his letters, he would mention his prayers for these churches and list the things they were to be commended for, and then he would lay out what needed to change without flinching. He did consider them to be brothers and sisters in Christ (am I right here…please correct me if I am not). So those in my former church, the leadership who are preaching a different gospel, they are to be accursed, but the others who are still there, are they still brothers and sisters? What of these leaders, like the Rick Warren types, are they brothers in Christ but just wrong on certain things or are they truly unsaved? How would Paul draft a letter to seeker friendly churches? What about the emergent churches? What about all these hybrids of many different denominations that are trying to please the world? What would his letter look like to them? Would he even write to them, or would he write to a nearby church instead warning about these people? I would have to study Paul’s letters a bit more to figure out how to draft a letter like he wrote to the churches in his day. It’d be interesting to see what Paul would confront and who he would confront.
How would Paul deal with the Universalist thinking presented in the emergent church as written at http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?p=8423
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I believe that Paul would have a few things to say:
Galatians 1:6-9: I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 3:1-4: O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain — if indeed it was in vain?
2 Corinthians 11:4: For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted — you may well put up with it!
2 Corinthians 11:19-20: For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise! For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face.
You are right, Paul did hit them head on with the facts of what they were doing and would do so today…