MAC'S HYPOCRISY

"You want to know something else? Doctrine divides. . . you know what it does? It confronts error, it separates true from false, it makes judgments. Todays's climate however of unity and priority of relationships, that's not tolerable. You know, I believe, I believe when Evangelicals are willing to depreciate doctrine, and when they are willing to set aside unpopular convictions, when they are willing to stay silent on Biblical teaching, that offends people in error and sin, opposition will disappear and we can all get together."(Growing a Healthy Flock Part 9, A Call for Discernment Part 1, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22)

"This kind of continuum thinking has contributed to the climate where discernment is unnecessary, unthinkable, and to pursue it is foolish, to pursue it is divisive, are you ready for this, to pursue it is evil. You are an evil person if you draw lines. You are an evil person if you think in absolutes. You are an evil person if you have convictions. Discernment can only thrive in an environment of doctrinal absolutes." (Growing a Healthy Flock Part 9, A Call for Discernment Part 1, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22)

"Beloved we are an offense, we know that. We are an offense. We are an offense. Every time we get in the newspapers again, I'm reminded, we are an offense. We're a lot more offensive than they know, they are just not around here enough. If they came every week, they could write an article on how offensive we are. We are an offense to all in error. We are an offense to all in rejection of the truth. We are an offense to all those who refuse Jesus Christ. We are an offense to all those who live in sin, and to mitigate that offense is ridiculous. Because it is precisely what the Holy Spirit is intending to produce--want's to convict because conviction and confrontation and conviction leads to salvation. Those offended should be offended. Well, we have a lack of discernment in the church, it's part of what Paul told us in this text, because of our weak theology, our failure to be antithetical, and a preoccupation with a worldly image. This is how it is out there." (Growing a Healthy Flock Part 9, A Call for Discernment Part 1, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22)

"The reformers fought error with a proper interpretation of Scripture. Now in the 20th century the church is going to have to fight the same battle, only this time we're not fighting the Roman Catholics we're fighting the Protestants--who have fallen into the same kind of patterns of ineptitude in dealing with Scripture."(Growing a Healthy Flock Part 10, A Call for Discernment Part 2, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22)

"There are plenty of preachers, dear friends, who are popular with men but ashamed to God. . .and anytime that I would ever misrepresent the truth, I would be ashamed to God."(Growing a Healthy Flock Part 10, A Call for Discernment Part 2, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22)

"People say today, 'Well, boy, if you say this guy is wrong and that guy is wrong, and that interpretation is wrong, uh, 1 Chronicles 16:22, Touch not the Lord's anointed, touch not the Lord's anointed, touch not the Lord's anointed. Well if somebody is teaching error, they are not the Lord's anointed. . . we have to be faithful to the word of God. It isn't a personal attack, it's the preservation of truth. "(Growing a Healthy Flock Part 10, A Call for Discernment Part 2, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22)