When Your Pastor Is a False Teacher

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When Your Pastor Is a False Teacher

MoralityVirtues

When Your Pastor Is a False Teacher

Episode 42 Show Notes
How Can I Know if My Pastor Is a False Teacher?

From the Show

How can I know if my pastor is a false teacher?

So we got to be really clear about this: heresy is a very serious charge. It means literally, “going your own way.” We’re taught in Scripture that someone who departs, goes his own way, departs from the faith once and for all delivered to the saints, unless corrected, will perish. So, we gotta be careful. Let’s not be vigilantes here. We can’t just run around zapping people with the heresy gun. — Michael Horton

Questions in this Episode

1. Did Jesus empty himself of being God?

2. How can I know if my pastor is a false teacher?

3. Should we still read books and learn from teachings of backslidden preachers?

4. What does it mean that God is love?

Resources

5 Non-Negotiables from the Church Fathers on the Incarnation

5 Things You Should Know About Your Pastor

Scandal and Shame in the Church

The Making of a Heretic

What Love Is and Why It Scares Us to Death

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Michael Horton (Ph.D., Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Coventry University) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California and Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Sola Media.

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