I am happy that anyone might visit this web site and use the content to spare someone -- perhaps even themselves -- from the clutches of modernist and fanciful doctrines. If you are not a pastor, you are still more than welcome to read these pages, with my blessing.
However, my primary audience is the body of Bible-believing pastors.
Pastor, whatever the size of your church, I can guarantee that at least one of the false doctrines debunked on this web site is already in the midst of your congregation. What is perhaps more alarming is the fact that any one of these doctrines usually has several others in its company -- they rarely travel alone.
Once a Christian begins going to teachers on the Internet for their doctrine instead of to a sound, local church, they are on shifting sands and will be "like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed" [James 1:6] and "tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive" [Ephesians 4:14].
The problem is that most pastors are already quite busy dealing with other issues in the church (counseling, teaching and preaching, being a crutch to those who are overwhelmed by life situations, discipling the young Christians, leading the various ministries, etc.) and do not have the luxury of stopping their work every few days to study out another false doctrine that an immature member has pulled off the Internet.
Another thing that I can guarantee is that the members who are susceptible to false doctrine will present them a lot faster than you can refute them. It only takes 10 minutes for them to watch a video on Youtube purveying some new, exciting teaching, but it could take you hours to present a Bible-based defense.
How can we justify taking hours away from the widow who needs help, the man with cancer, the family who is losing their home or their children, and other critical needs in the church, to refute doctrine for somebody who is just going to pull another bizarre teaching from another video tonight and hit you with it tomorrow?
But, if you leave those itching ears to their own fate on the Internet, they will divide your church. You won't see the full extent of the damage until it is nearly complete.
The only alternative seems to be to put out of the church the one who is bringing in heresy.
Both of the options above are bad options, in my opinion. The second one is much less destructuve than the first, but I still ache to see somebody thrown away because of their immaturity and foolishness, when they could be saved and become strong members of the church when they mature in Christ.
I see so much potential in these folks who are drinking up these heresies. By-and-large, they are not bad people who are purposefully trying to divide the church. Yet, their immaturity and lack of a solid grounding in the Bible could end up doing devastaing things to the church.
This web site is part of the solution that I see to the problem. I have attempted to begin addressing various false doctrines from a solid, biblical perspective and make summaries of those doctrines (and the Bible teaching against them) available for pastors and others who can use them to address false doctrines cropping up in their churches.
The more quickly and effectively you can address these false doctrines as they pop up their ugly heads in your church, the more credibility you will have with these immature believers, and the more likely they will be to begin distrusting the goat-herders on the Internet and to look to you, the God-ordained pastor of the local church, for their Bible teaching. Then, it will be much more likely that they will mature and grow into productive Christians who can help you in God's work instead of hindering you.
If you can use some of the information presented on this web site to save an individual who is headed down the wrong road, or to mitigate the damage done to your church by such an individual, then God bless you! I am glad and blessed to have been of help.
