“Master we saw one...and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not...” (Mk. 9:38-39). Oswald Chambers said, “It takes God a long time to get us out of the way of thinking that unless everyone sees as we do they must be wrong.”
There are some rigid movements within Christendom who believe only they have a corner on the truth. In an overbearing, dictatorial way, they renounce all others as heretics or apostates. If you’re not a part of their particular denomination, or church, you could not possibly be right. This type of self-centered ego comes from the fact that they refuse to see the whole picture. The Body of Christ is much larger than one little group. It takes in all of God’s people, not a select few. It may surprise some, but there are still “seven thousand.” You need not get an Elijah complex.
I like what one old-time evangelist said years ago: “If a hound dog comes to town and barks for Jesus, I’m going to leave him alone.”
A man who thinks he is always right will eventually start playing God in other people’s lives.
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