What We Put Up With

Believers applaud one another for walking out on a movie that contains an overabundance of expletives, markets a gay agenda, or has romantic situations that border on pornography. However, I find it curious that we will walk out on a secular situation, but when it comes to the religious landscape, we stay seated through a sermon, Sunday school class, or Bible study that spins the Word of God with false teaching. Paul warns us, “But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough” (2 Cor 11:3-4 NIV).