Monday, January 25, 2010

Galatians 1:8-9

We are not to be dazzled, as many people are, by the person, gifts or office of teachers in the church. They may come to us with great dignity, authority and scholarship. They may be bishops or archbishops, university professors or even the pope himself. But if they bring a gospel other than the gospel preached by the apostles and recorded in the New Testament, they are to be rejected. We judge them by the gospel; we do not judge the gospel by them. As Dr. Alan Cole expresses it, “The outward person of the messenger does not validate the message; rather, the nature of the message validates the messenger.” John Stott, Only One Way: The Message of Galatians, pp.27, 28.

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