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This precious sister whose Twitter handle is CaDaisygirl (@CaDaisygirl), wrote a heartfelt thread about her time when she had followed false teacher Beth Moore. We know and understand that Moore and other false teachers affect a denomination. Their damage impacts wide swathes of professing and true believers. The damage is real.
But what of the lone woman, wandering in a maze of doubt, loneliness, perplexity? What of the negative influence on a woman's life when she seeks the true Jesus, but isn't taught? What of her private and individual pain? What happens when the Gospel isn't even part of the conversation?
Here is CaDaisygirl's testimony. She asks "that we together remain in prayer that these words would be used to glorify Jesus and bring others out of darkness and into His truth and glorious light. I by no means desire to wound anyone, rather I desire that we learn to put our faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
I was praying about and for Beth Moore last night and checking my heart in this debate. I followed Beth for many years, a staunch supporter. I read her books, did her studies, and followed her blog.
I realize now that what captured me was, well, quite frankly, Beth.
She was witty, interesting, beautiful, and had that Southern charm. Being her fan was being part of a beautiful club of engaging women who were being drawn towards Jesus. I was a much less mature Christian in those days, and hadn’t yet encountered the depravity of my sin.
From her studies, I learned I was "broken" and a "mess" and that Jesus could fix my messiness, but what I realized in my prayer time last night was that, in all the books I read, and all the studies I did, I was never lead to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nowhere did I read that my brokenness and messiness was actually rebellion against God and His Word. Nowhere did I read that the flesh must be crucified with Christ, and it was no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me. Galatians 2:20.
Beth's teachings dance around this concept, but never fully engage it. That is why they are so dangerous. They make you feel good to know about Jesus, without ever directing you how to know Him as Lord and Savior through repentance and surrender and obedience to His Word.
Her teachings are emotional and easy on the soul, but if a non-believer were to study them all, would they know, in the end, what is required to have a saving faith in Christ? Are her followers being drawn into a superficial knowledge of Jesus rather than a saving knowledge of Him?
That is my question and my fear, and that is why I feel compelled to speak about a ministry I so dearly loved at one time. We must use discernment in this day and age. No matter how charming a teacher may be, are they pointing us to salvation?
Are they pointing us to surrender, obedience to God’s Word, and crucifying of the flesh? Are they teaching us to die to self and live for Christ?
If not, why not?
I praise the Lord that He draws women out of darkness. Those who follow false teachers are either given over to the lusts that allowed their desires to cloud the truth and they keep heaping up the teachers that speak to those desires, (2 Timothy 4:3) or they are brought out of darkness into the light, seeing satan for the masquerading minister of light that he actually is. (2 Corinthians 2:11)
We warn because of women who wander and remain broken but unaware of their true state and waxing worse due to the false teachers. We warn because of women who are being taught that Jesus is an add-on to their life, a fixer, but who remain unknowing of Him as savior and Lord.
I'm grateful for testimonies as grace-filled as CaDaisygirl's is. Of her extolling Jesus who saves, who purifies His Bride. I pray her words will help another woman out there who wonders... 'I'm broken and messy, but why aren't I 'fixed'?' and that she finds true solace in repentance and glorifying Jesus for who He really is.
But what of the lone woman, wandering in a maze of doubt, loneliness, perplexity? What of the negative influence on a woman's life when she seeks the true Jesus, but isn't taught? What of her private and individual pain? What happens when the Gospel isn't even part of the conversation?
Here is CaDaisygirl's testimony. She asks "that we together remain in prayer that these words would be used to glorify Jesus and bring others out of darkness and into His truth and glorious light. I by no means desire to wound anyone, rather I desire that we learn to put our faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
---------------Testimony---------------
I realize now that what captured me was, well, quite frankly, Beth.
She was witty, interesting, beautiful, and had that Southern charm. Being her fan was being part of a beautiful club of engaging women who were being drawn towards Jesus. I was a much less mature Christian in those days, and hadn’t yet encountered the depravity of my sin.
From her studies, I learned I was "broken" and a "mess" and that Jesus could fix my messiness, but what I realized in my prayer time last night was that, in all the books I read, and all the studies I did, I was never lead to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nowhere did I read that my brokenness and messiness was actually rebellion against God and His Word. Nowhere did I read that the flesh must be crucified with Christ, and it was no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me. Galatians 2:20.
Beth's teachings dance around this concept, but never fully engage it. That is why they are so dangerous. They make you feel good to know about Jesus, without ever directing you how to know Him as Lord and Savior through repentance and surrender and obedience to His Word.
Her teachings are emotional and easy on the soul, but if a non-believer were to study them all, would they know, in the end, what is required to have a saving faith in Christ? Are her followers being drawn into a superficial knowledge of Jesus rather than a saving knowledge of Him?
That is my question and my fear, and that is why I feel compelled to speak about a ministry I so dearly loved at one time. We must use discernment in this day and age. No matter how charming a teacher may be, are they pointing us to salvation?
Are they pointing us to surrender, obedience to God’s Word, and crucifying of the flesh? Are they teaching us to die to self and live for Christ?
If not, why not?
---------------End of Testimony---------------
I praise the Lord that He draws women out of darkness. Those who follow false teachers are either given over to the lusts that allowed their desires to cloud the truth and they keep heaping up the teachers that speak to those desires, (2 Timothy 4:3) or they are brought out of darkness into the light, seeing satan for the masquerading minister of light that he actually is. (2 Corinthians 2:11)
We warn because of women who wander and remain broken but unaware of their true state and waxing worse due to the false teachers. We warn because of women who are being taught that Jesus is an add-on to their life, a fixer, but who remain unknowing of Him as savior and Lord.
I'm grateful for testimonies as grace-filled as CaDaisygirl's is. Of her extolling Jesus who saves, who purifies His Bride. I pray her words will help another woman out there who wonders... 'I'm broken and messy, but why aren't I 'fixed'?' and that she finds true solace in repentance and glorifying Jesus for who He really is.
Regarding Beth Moore: I never realized until recently that in II Timothy 3:6, "For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, . . ." the Greek word for THEM is a pronoun that could either be masculine or feminine or form. The persons capable of captivating weak women CAN be either male or female.
ReplyDeleteAMEN, SISTER. Salvation is in a Person, the Lord Jesus, Son of the living God. If anything points to anything else, the Lord Holy Spirit will not witness to that for He only shows up when we Glorify our Great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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