Buy The Truth

Last evening Bro Wofford called me an enigma from the pulpit and then defined what he meant....

He mentioned that I was old fashioned and refused to let go of the basic traditions of the church....

He then said though that I was brave enough to embrace current and new methodology.....

This got my thinker going....

Here is where many of us find ourselves involved in the battle.....

Many here define the truth by grace and liberty....

Others here focus more on the visible cans and can'ts.....

Brethren....

Tis not our liberties or our convictions that define us.....

For both sides seem to wander off into the wasteland of the forgotten....

I have seen way too many conservatives wander off into the bitterness of everybody is going to hell but me.....

And I have witnessed too many liberal types backslide while loving Jesus....

I humbly suggest that the defining element that keeps men close to the church and the Lord is the "love for the truth".....

While one man might allow rings and video but noone can question his love for truth....

Another might be old fashioned in his standards but none here can question his charactar or love for truth.....

Herein lies the crux.....

Many wander off the reservation to the right and left because they love the stuff of the church more than the truth.....

Short sleaves and chin whiskers will no more send a man to hell than long sleeve white shirts and and a black suit will save a man....

These are things we as men set aside in consecration in our worship.....

Sure there are some who have consecrated more things to God than others....

And there are others with less consecration who love Jesus and their brothers much more than the more consecrated.....

Bottom line is....

Everyone of us better get a good grip on truth and love it....

Buy the truth and sell it not.....