Bart Gingerich writes that young people are being led by untrained writers who claim to understand the deep wisdom of God better than anyone who came before them:
[W]e are starting to observe firsthand that the radical democratization of knowledge has led to what John Luckacs calls “an inflation of ideas.” Everyone has been given just enough knowledge and literacy to get them into trouble and yet none of the patience or discipline to get them out of it. Everyone with a blog or Twitter account can shoot out lots of small ideas that lack depth, grounding, and merit. Thus, American Christians are confronted with more and more theological ideas that have less and less worth.
Seminaries are both suffering from this and contributing to this problem. (via Anthony Bradley)
I guess even Christians are susceptible to our vain culture. Radical individualism will do that.
It’s not something that can’t be beaten with the right teaching methods, I’d say.
I agree, Sparky.
Reminds me of the many well meaning folk who tell me that they don’t need doctrine, just the Bible, not realizing that true doctrine is merely a cataloging of the teachings of the Bible.
That leads to the wacko church near here that mixes every imaginable false teaching with a few Bible verses. Yet they get a pass because they are “Preaching the Bible.”
Baloney
Well, they aren’t getting a pass from you. Are they an independent church or part of a network or denomination?