Last week I saw a video of a woman preacher. She was in the pulpit in her clergy garb last year and she said: “If Jesus were giving His sermon today, He might also have said, ‘Blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their loving kindness.’”

When I heard her say those words, I was extremely sad. Then I felt a number of different emotions. And then I prayed, asking that God would work in her heart a desire to listen to what He has actually said in His Word and lead her to repentance.

I remember people wearing those WWJD bracelets. I guess this woman preacher thought that meant she could voice her own opinion, informed by her own sinful desires, and suggest that is what Jesus would do and say.

As Cheryl and I were discussing this, she said, “I’m afraid that lady is going to have a millstone around her neck!”

Luke 17:1–4 Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.  So watch yourselves. “If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”

I take a completely different approach than that lady preacher did when I am talking to people about Jesus. I tell them what Jesus actually did and said. I share what He has told us about Himself in His Word. I try at all costs to give an accurate description and representation of the God who loved us enough that He came to rescue us from sin and death. Never once did He say, “Continue in your sins.” In fact, His Word says the opposite.

1 John 3:6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

That lady preacher would probably want me to tell you her name. I would rather share with you the name of the one who loves you, lived for you, died for you, and wants you to be forgiven and with Him forever:  Jesus. He’s the one you need to know.

 

 

 

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