Most North American believers are wonderfully and prayerfully sympathetic to the plight of fellow Christians who are undergoing terrible persecutions for their faith in foreign lands, yet too few have a real concern for fellow believers here in the West who are being spiritually seduced and whose biblical faith is being critically undermined. The tendency is to write off most false preachers and teachers as religious kooks and to think no more about their captive audience. All true believers, whether or not they have been led into false teaching, make up the body of Christ. When one part of the body is seduced and suffers, it affects the entire body (1 Corinthians 12:25-27).
Not only is such a cavalier attitude wrong biblically, but it is extremely shortsighted and therefore blinds a person to the seductions and ultimate deceptions that are involved.
T. A. McMahon, The Berean Call, March 2013
1 Corinthians 10:12
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Thank you for this clip from TBC. Very good reminder!
I enjoy your site very much since the Lord led me to it a month ago or so.
In Him,
Shannon
yes - even in the church there is too much focus on me and mine.
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TBC - such a strong, consistant voice addressing the weaknesses within the the body.
Now if Mr. McMahon could only tell us how to get these false prophets, apostates and heretics to stop calling themselves Christians.
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