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“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching” — 2 Timothy 4:3-4
Phil Johnson,
“Now let’s face it: the church in our generation has been cultivated in a hothouse of evangelical apostasy where unapologetic truth-speaking—especially if it includes rebuke for wrongdoing or the refutation of falsehood—is simply not tolerated. And yet the denizens of this refined society fancy themselves more tolerant than our benighted spiritual ancestors who held strong convictions about moral, ethical, and spiritual matters.
This softening of conviction would come as no surprise to the apostle Paul, because he told Timothy that times such as these were already on their way: ‘People will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths’”….[Continue reading at the Pyromaniacs blog]
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Phil Johnson is the Executive Director of Grace to You, and an elder at Grace Community Church. He also pastors the GraceLife fellowship group, blogs regularly at the Pyromaniacs blog, and runs The Spurgeon Archive, The Hall of Church History, and Phil Johnson’s Bookmarks. All wonderful sites.
