The Pied Piper of Purpose

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1592.¹

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Pastor,

You recently asked what was happening with us. I told you of His blessing, but not the rest —



A number of months ago a church, historically stalwart in the faith, we were attending, suddenly mandated that Sunday classes were to be suspended for "forty days." During that time everyone was to participate in the study of a popular “purpose driven” paperback. Rather than gathering together to study the Word, that we "might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding," we were inculcated in the doctrine of a book by a mere man.

A few months ago another church, historically stalwart in the faith, we were attending, suddenly mandated that Sunday classes be suspended for forty days. During that time everyone was to participate in the study of a popular “purpose driven” paperback. Rather than learning together from the Word, that we "might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God," our challenge was to mediate on a book by a mere man.

These churches, having heard the sirens’ call, marched in lockstep with a thousand other churches as the self proclaimed Pied Piper of Purpose lead them to a tranquil oblivion!

Failing to discern between two mutually exclusive ways of “doing church” His "way" or man’s, each “purposefully” opted for the “spiritually correct” aberration of His Word and the inevitable accompaniment — spiritual confusion!

The pastor of Saddleback, Inc. has convinced multitudes that his "way" is more progressive, more savvy, more contemporary, more loving, and of course, more popular than the other "way."

The author of “purpose” has persuaded a multitude o churches that he has discovered mysteries that even the "Author and Finisher of our faith" neglected to reveal — churches that have apparently forgotten Judges, the book of spiritual confusion that regrettably concludes: “every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”

Tell me pastor, what is your church doing this fall...?



¹By Creator:Augustin von Moersperg - This image scanned from 『ハーメルンの笛吹き男』 ISBN 4-480-02272-4, that was published by Abe Kinya in 1988., Public Domain,://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68665

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