Don’t you just love complements? We all do, we like people to speak well of us and well to us. But how far would you go to get it?
For example, would you think of visiting doctors until you found one who only told you good things – regardless of your real medical condition? Surely we would never think of using such reasoning with our physical health, but it is amazing how many people do with their spiritual health.
Roger Ellsworth writes of a Church Denomination that conducted a nationwide campaign to attract new members by using this slogan: ‘Instead of fitting me to religion, I found a religion that fits me.’
That’s Ahab all over. You remember the story of Ahab and how he had 400 prophets of Baal. But they were shown to be false prophets of a false god on Mt Carmel by God through Elijah, and were then [...]