Day Three - Blending Beliefs
Today's Devotional By: Ptr. Mark & Grace Driscoll
Today's Devotional Scriptures:
Sadly it is quite common for Christians keep parts of their Christian faith and marry it with non-Christian practice. Some younger Western Christians do this in the name of love, tolerance, and reconciliation. Academics call blending beliefs syncretism. God calls it adultery.
Syncretism is what happens when we receive or seek to redeem things that we must reject. In second Chronicles, the children of religious leaders were promoting syncretism when “Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the Lord, and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.”
What You Can Do
The gospel of Jesus Christ is pristine, pure, and clean. The gospel of Jesus Christ was created by God. Satan counterfeits this gospel with unclean, impure, deadly false gospels that seek to do to the gospel what the algae is doing to the lake. This explains why Satan is always trying to contaminate what God created clean with his corrupting counterfeit. Thankfully, the kingdom of God will one day come and put an end to all counterfeits.
Credits & Acknowledgements to: M & G Driscoll & bible.com