“Adventures in Missing the Point?”

Some time ago there was a Battle Cry post called Satan’s Gambit that suggested that the Enemy’s chief tactic for wreaking havoc and causing dissension in the church is to attack the inspiration and authority of Scripture. To anyone who observes trends in Christianity, as an insider or outsider, it seems that it’s a highly successful strategy. There are however, those who just won’t fall for the gambit and maintain that Scripture is what it says it is – the inspired written word of God, and the final authority for all matters of faith and practice of the Christian faith. For those sorts of folks, the enemy has another tactic.

Where believers simply refuse to put down theirBibles to follow the latest Christian fads engineered by wolfishly clever ‘evangelical’ snake oil salesmen, the enemy has another tactic that works quite well. He merely leads us into what can be called ‘adventures in missing the point”. We get to keep our Bibles and even continue with our ‘sola scriptura’ affirmations. As long as we spend our time discussing anything and everything that misses the main point of explicit themes and  teaching, and would rather spend our time with secondary, tertiary, and issues foreign to the text of scripture, the enemy is satisfied.

Think about it. . .