(guard your irony meters)

So much false teaching, so few calling it out!
We had a few threads here of late that seek to dismiss the soft sell gospel types. One particular poster fixated on one passage of the Bible with tunnel vision. No amount of passages that would help clarify the truth would help. If a church just mentions Jesus and is busy with social gospel things, they are OK and anyone calling them into question is just divisive and mean.

This mentality is similar to a group of people known as "Red Letter Christians". They too fixate on the red letter portions of the social, non confrontational parts of Jesus' words. The danger in this is obvious. One comes to the Word with a presupposition and then finds passages to agree with those suppositions.

By taking a pick and choose method of Biblical understanding entire portions of the Bible will by necessity be ignored. By not having a serious view of the entirety of Scripture no objective standard is needed, only what makes someone happy and comfortable is needed.

This is why so many people wind up watching joel osteen, rick warren, the whole TBN crowd or the preacher du jour we see on Sunday morning television They never seem to discern the folly and perversion of the Gospel these people peddle. This comes as no small surprise given that in many churches discernment is a dirty word.

The disease of the Red Letter Christian is something with which Bible Believing Christians need to become familiar.