Checklist on Crooked and Straight Preachers

Crooked preachers:

  • Miss the mark.
  • Swerve from truth.
  • Undermine faith.
  • Answer useless questions.
  • Corrupt God’s Word.
  • Make a trade peddling a weakened Word.
  • Mix the impure with pure.
  • Shortchange the message.
  • Promote truth decay.
  • Turn families away from the right way.
  • Distort the Word.
  • Handle God’s Word deceitfully.
  • Fly on the winds of every doctrine.

Straight Preachers:

  • Preach the Word.
  • Declare the whole counsel of God.
  • Guard the truth.
  • Teach doctrine.
  • Continue in the apostle’s doctrine.
  • Speak truth in love.
  • Keep nothing back.
  • Charge others to teach no other doctrine.

There is a famine in the land (Amos 8:11). People are looking for truth. Can they count on you? Will you be a crooked preacher or a truth preacher? Reform is needed. The choice is yours; the end results are without comparison.

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