Should we hate the false teachers? Does God? You’re probably like me in that you want to know God’s heart and sync up with Him on who to love and who to hate. Wait, does God hate people? Well, He must because He is the one in charge of sending some people to hell, separated from Him for all eternity. It was God that sent an evil spirit to torment King Saul when he disobeyed.

When God sends me as His prophet to help pastors overcome false doctrines, I can feel God’s heart for them. He wants them to earnestly pursue His will on the doctrines. But as time passes, and they continue to teach falsely, God’s heart changes in the words that He delivers through me. A pastor can have the right heart and wrong theology and still manage to please God … until God sends His messenger to point out the wrong theology. Once that happens they have been warned to seek Him until the wrong doctrine is removed. If they refuse Him, they have hard consequences for their wrong theology. They cannot please Him while they teach falsely.

So you can imagine the hard place that puts me in. How am I to love the pastors enough to keep warning them when I can already feel God’s heart changing against them. That’s when I get frustrated. It’s more important to me to please God than to warn the false teachers. At some point, I’m just ready for the Lord to stop giving them chances so I can get out of the middle of the whole mess. But then, I’m ashamed that I didn’t love them enough to keep warning them. I find myself in that position once again.

The attached letter from February 2021, was a communication to 24 pastors locally. The associated Mark of Excellence newsletter warned of God’s heart towards false teachers. What are your thoughts? Should God turn His back on them when they continue to teach falsely?