The problem with this, is that all it results in is our choosing our own method of poison. Many religious brands are available for the spiritual shopper. It is not about making the right pick, but something far more fundamental. At the end of the day Christianity is about truth. It is those of the truth that hear Christ, who is the Absolute Truth with a capital T. Some are tempted to the solution that sounds something like this: “if it is about the truth then what I make true in my life is what really matters.” What a deception this is; people choosing their own truths! Doesn’t this sound so innocent? Again, it is a deadly delusion.

Think about what Jesus said for a minute. Those who are of the truth, hear Him. Hearing Christ is not about our choosing to, it is about our relation to the truth. Our prior relation to the truth is the reality that makes our Christianity the real deal or not. Many fill church buildings today just as many flock to varieties of religious temples or experiences around the globe, yet it means nothing. The person they are “hearing” is not the voice of truth but the mimicking voice of a hireling, that is deceiving and deadly. E.M. Bounds once spoke about sermonettes that killed their listeners. That is what is promoted today, and those who are of the lie are flocking to these christian cathedrals in droves.