To lead a significant life

I have never been one to make resolutions for the New Year, having learned long ago that I would likely break them at the first opportunity.

However I do evaluate my life and the ministry that I have been given, annually.

During a time of evaluation in the latter part of 2009, the idea came upon me that based on some experiences during the year that perhaps I should take a more tolerant view of how I feel the gift that has been bestowed upon me should be presented.

I will share a few of those experiences, hoping that they minister to you somehow.

In the past year I have heard several prophets and pastors, declare to the church that we have entered a time to rest, and re-focus our ministry.

The truth is that the Church is not called to rest, rather we are encouraged to press on, unyielding and doing the Masters work until He returns.

I was witness to the blessing of communion (the Lords Supper) being presented at times with no mention of the sacrifice of Christ and His finished work. They did however mention, the works of men, Buddha, and puppy dogs.

In so doing, these people partook of the table of demons, bringing curses to all who approved.

I was shocked at a pastor that I love when I witnessed him bestow a blessing upon a couple who were cohabitating and had just announced to the world that they were pregnant with their first child.

When I refused to bestow a similar blessing upon them, I was scolded as being intolerant and uncharitable, and told that the truth of the message that I preach , would run people like that particular couple away from the church.

In defense of the Word of God, the pastor was told that people like that and many who fill pews in churches on a weekly basis, need to be ran away from the church and to the Cross of Christ.

I stand by my statement.

There is a great hue and cry throughout the world today on behalf of tolerance and much of it comes from a rising spirit of godlessness in the nations.

I believe in Christian charity, but I do not believe at all in Christian tolerance.
The person who hates the name of Jesus, who believes that He was not the Son of God but an imposter, deserves charity on our part.

I believe in Christian charity, but I do not believe in the weak tolerance that we hear preached so often now--the idea that Jesus must tolerate everyone and that the Christian must tolerate every kind of doctrine.

I do not believe it for one minute, for there are no dozen “rights”.
There is only one “right”.

There is but one true Bible, one true God and only one Savior of the world, Jesus!

Jesus Christ demonstrated the vast difference between being charitable and being tolerant, Jesus Christ was so charitable that in His great heart He took in all the people in the world and was willing to die, even for those who hated Him.

But even with that kind of love and charity crowning His being, Jesus was so intolerant that He taught; “ I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” (John 8:24)

I believe in Christian charity, but not to the end that the road of Universalism would take you down, that every road leads to God.