Good News!

The staff at CLC is reading a book by Phillip Cary entitled "Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don't HAVE to Do" that I want to recommend to you. I will try to give you a summary over the next few weeks.

What Cary sets out to do is combat many of the false teachings that have infiltrated Evangelical Christianity over the last decades. I have heard each of these misunderstandings from people as well. Sometimes it's good to evaluate what we are being told in Christian circles.

#1 You Don't Have to Hear God's Voice in Your Heart
It is very rare in Scripture that God spoke directly to someone's heart. God used prophets to bring his message to the people. The prophets never told the people to listen for God in their hearts. What they had was God's Word. It's the same thing we have today. He still speaks to us in His Word.

If we hear voices inside, we may think God is telling us to do something. Can God talk directly to us? Yes, he can do whatever He wants. Does God talk directly to us, inside our hearts? Maybe, but how can we be sure? The only way to be sure we are listening to the voice of God is to allow our own hearts to sound like God. And how do we do that? We read His Word! The more we are in God's Word, the more our own hearts sound like God.

When we go to God's Word, we don't have to question whether or not it's God's voice we are hearing. God has promised to always speak through His Word. He never promises to speak through our hearts. Actually, scripture says that out of our hearts come things that are quite the opposite of God and his ways. (Matthew 15:19) But as we are shaped by God's Word of revelation, He enlightens our hearts. (Eph 1:18)

More to Come...