January 19, Truth and Politics

There is a danger... of the clergy developing a special professional conscience which obscures the very plain moral issue. Men who have passed beyond these boundary lines... are apt to protest that they have come by their unorthodox opinions honestly. In defense of those opinions they are prepared to suffer obloquy and to forfeit professional advancement. They thus come to feel like martyrs. But this simply misses the point which so gravely scandalizes the layman. We never doubted that the unorthodox opinions were honestly held; what we complained of is your continuing your ministry after you have come to hold them. We always knew that a man who makes his living as a paid agent of the Conservative party may honestly change his views and honestly become a Communist. what we deny is that he can honestly continue to be a Conservative agent and to receive money from one party while he supports the policy of another.
-C.S. Lewis
The Business of Heaven

Truth. Are we to respect our elders? Yes. Are we to learn from the teachers? Yes. But remember that scripture says to "test the spirits... because many false prophets have gone out into the world." It doesn't matter who anyone says they are from, or who they say they represent it matters what they say. I can remember sitting under a head pastor who was an incredible man of God but slowly over time the things he began to say did not line up with the Word of God. Each falsity would hit me like a daggar when I heard it being preached from the pulpit. I had no idea what was going on behind the scenes but I knew something had changed and I knew that what I was hearing, although it was coming from a very well respected man who I loved was not in line with God's word. Seek out truth. Recognize falsities. Read the Word and let the Holy Spirit write it upon your heart. People, sadly, and I pray less than often that not, can stray from the path they began upon.

But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
1 John 2: 27-28