Would there be any Christians in the congregation who would search the Scriptures to see if what Dr. [Billy] Graham was preaching was biblical? I have no doctrinal problems with the ministry of the world-famous evangelist, but is it not a symptom of our celebrity-obsessed society that few if any Christians would expend the effort to biblically evaluate what they were hearing, even from such a godly man?
Is it not true that we let the experts do our thinking for us? Our society seems to reject any existence of truth, yet Christians seem inclined to believe anyone who says he has truth. But the biblical position is to test those who claim to have truth by they clear teachings of Scripture. And if that included the Apostle Paul in the First Century, it certainly ought to include teachers like Graham, Swindoll, Dobson, and Dixon (!) in the Twentieth Century.
Larry Dixon, “Learning to Listen: The Absolute Need for An Absolute Authority,” The Emmaus Journal, Vol.8/No.1, pg.82
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