The healthy church constantly walks with God and learns from Him. However, the unhealthy church is so sure that their faulty interpretation of Scriptures is all that there is. They don’t need to learn from God through hearing His voice in prayer because they have already learned from another (faulty) human everything they need to know. (That was sarcasm.)

King David said “I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.” (Psalm 119:102-104 NIV)

The Apostle Paul wrote letters to the churches in Rome, Corinth, Thessalonica, Ephesus, Philippi, and Colossae. He wanted them to know truth and stand firm in it. The same God who spoke to the Apostle Paul still speaks today. He speaks to His prophets. He speaks to His apostles. He speaks to His children to be heard and obeyed. If church managers and ministers are unwilling to seek God, they are always going to be teaching contrary to God’s heart even if what they’re saying sounds like what we want to hear.

Each of us needs to individually seek God and learn from Him. When His Spirit cautions us about something we have heard from a message, we need to lean in to Him and gain clarity through asking questions and listening to His answers until we have peace.

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” (2 Timothy 4:3 NIV)

Many denominations of the church develop their own church stance on doctrines while not caring if and when other churches teach contrary to their doctrines. They stand shoulder to shoulder in a fake unity, as if God would want a unity of false doctrines. God wants us to oppose false teaching, not sit complicit with it.

If a church is so sure that their doctrine is correct, shouldn’t they oppose the message of the false teachers? The problem seems to be that the unhealthy churches, that don’t seek God, don’t realize that they’re teaching falsely. The healthy church seeks God for every doctrinal stance.

“The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.” (1 Timothy 4:1-5 NIV)

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