Watch what you preach

One thing that I have noticed over the past few years is that those of us who claim to be Dispensationalist have a fatal flaw. We do not carry our dispensational "beliefs" with us everywhere we go. I hear from different preacher a mixing of Israel and the Church, now it may be a very suttle mixing, but it is that very mixture that causes fatal error. I believe with this confusion that comes from our puplits is what makes it easy for seminaries and bible colleges that teach reformed theology to sweep our sheep astray, while they attend this institutions. We know how the best sellers in the Christian realm are the favorites of the immature and mature believers at our churches, but if they do not have the spiritual wisdom to separate reformed teachings from dispensational teachings then they will get swept away. The maturing mind thrist for spiritual wisdom, but that does not mean that they can discern every teaching and make distinctions between truth and heresies. Also I believe that we must be careful as we quote from the pulpit, if we like something that a writer from a different theological persuasion says, then let us be sure to give the credentials of that person so that our congregations will not assume that all that they have to say is truth. That is why we went to seminary or bible college, so that we may discern these things. We need to remember that they did not. In several of the general epistles, we learn that those who would teach false doctrine and even apostate teachings will creep into our churches and will try to subvert the truth, causing doubt in the minds of our congregations. It is easy for a Baptist to diswayed his congregations from believing a buddist, muslim, or hindu from teaching or even a charismetic. It is when the theologies that would come from baptist with reformed flare that can confuse and ultimately lead astray our concregations. I know that some of the things that I say are not comfortable to listen to and are quite frankly offensive to some, but I do not desire to attack those who teach reformed theology at a personal level, but a theological level.