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Amen! 🙌

✅️ It's the essence of λογομαχέω, which Paul warned us not to do in 2 Tim. 2:14. Never subject God's word to man's word!

Something is quietly happening in modern Christianity.

Many believers haven’t rejected Jesus, but we are slowly drifting from the very thing that anchors our faith: the Word of God. 📕

Instead of being satisfied in Christ alone and in His Word alone, the Church is increasingly chasing experiences, personalities, and spiritual trends. When Scripture becomes secondary, confusion and division always follow.

I wrote a new blog addressing why this drift is happening and how the Church can return to the living Word.

Read it here:
https://www.bethechurchministry.com/post/modern-christianity-is-losing-its-center-we-must-return-to-the-living-word

Modern Christianity Is Losing Its Center We Must Return to the Living Word Modern Christianity is drifting from its center. Many believers are chasing experiences, personalities, and spiritual trends while neglecting the one thing God has given to anchor our faith His Word. Scripture was never meant to be an accessory to faith but its foundation. In this blog, we explore w...

📜 Today in Church History: February 27, 1830
The Death of Elias Hicks When Authority Shifted from Scripture to Experience

In 1830, Elias Hicks, a prominent Quaker minister, died after leading a movement that divided American Quakerism. His followers became known as the Hicksites.

🙌🏽 The early Quakers originally sought sincere Christianity rejecting empty ritual and state-controlled religion and calling believers to simple obedience to Christ.

But then a serious theological disagreement emerged!

🥴 Hicks taught that the “Inner Light,” a personal inward spiritual experience, should hold greater authority than Scripture itself. While he still valued the Bible, inward revelation increasingly became the final guide. (Sound familiar)???

This caused a major split: some Quakers held Scripture as the sole final authority, and, sadly, others followed inward spiritual impressions as primary.

When experience rises above God’s Word, doctrinal clarity slowly fades. Over time, Hicksite influence developed into what many liberal Quaker groups represent today.

👎🏽 No required doctrinal confession; anything goes

👎🏽 Openness to multiple religious paths leads to God

👎🏽 In some meetings, Christianity is no longer central or uniquely defined; Christ is just a good teacher to follow, but not the only teacher.

What began as a desire for authentic faith gradually shifted away from historic biblical Christianity once they replaced the Word with experiences.

📖 Scripture warns believers to test every teaching
"Test the spirits to see whether they are from God." 1 John 4:1

📕 Sincerity does not equal sound doctrine
📕 Spiritual experiences must be tested by Scripture
📕 Every movement, past and present, must remain anchored in God’s Word

When Scripture stops being the final authority, faith slowly reshapes itself around human ideas.

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“Your word is truth.” John 17:17

Every teacher, tradition, and movement must bow to Scripture.