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10/3/15 3:30 PM |
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“Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand” (2 Cor. 1:24). WARNING OF SIN AND ERROR IS NOT GOSSIP. Marking false teachers and warning about compromisers is not gossip or slander. Paul warned of false teachers and compromisers by name ten times in 1&2 Tim. alone. If a church leader publicly teaches error, it is not gossip or slander for men of God to warn about the issue publicly. I have often been charged with being a slanderer or a busybody when I have named men such as Billy Graham or Jerry Falwell or James Dobson and have warned about error. This is not slander. I have the right and responsibility as a preacher to mark those who depart from the Word of God. I do not have to get their permission to do so, and I do not have to approach them first. If their error is public and persistent, my responsibility is to warn of them publicly, just as Paul did in regard to Hymenaeus and Alexander(1 Tim. 1:20), Phygellus&Hermogenes (2 Tim. 1:15), Hymenaeus&Philetus (2 Tim. 2:17), Demas(2 Tim. 4:10),&Alexander the coppersmith (2 Tim. 4:14-15). Paul did this in epistles that were intended for distribution to all of the churches. Slander is spreading ill-founded, untrue things about others with the intent to injure them."Cloud |
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