In a time of lockdown, where everything is online, the danger of being led astray by weird teachings on the internet has been very significantly increased. All preaching has had to move online. Hundreds of thousands of churches are putting out teaching and devotions of varying qualities. Millions of Christians with time on their hands are either producing content or looking for content to consume. Interested non-Christians are searching for meaning and answers. Thousands of 'ministries' of all kinds and sizes with large video and podcast libraries are no longer on the periphery of 'real life' but at the centre of the online marketplace where most of us are now spending the majority of our waking hours. The chance of false teachers 'worming their way into homes' (2 Tim 3:6) has increased exponentially. The potential for destructive teaching to 'spread like gangrene' (2 Tim 2:17) is supercharged by overactive social media. Our ability to accumulate a gre...
Living and preaching at the foot of the Cross