{"id":37243,"date":"2018-10-11T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/four12global.com\/?post_type=resources&p=37243"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:36:46","slug":"dont-be-a-drifter","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/four12global.com\/articles\/dont-be-a-drifter\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Be a Drifter"},"content":{"rendered":"
A man by the name of Howard Hendricks took it upon himself a number of years ago to investigate the circumstances leading up to the devastating moral failures of 246 men who were all in full-time ministry. What is both fascinating and incredibly sobering about all of these men was that every single one of them believed with absolute certainty that this kind of morally disqualifying sin ‘could never happen to me’! In this article, we will look at how Scripture warns us of the dangers of drifting and, at worst, falling away.<\/p>\n
If you stop swimming upstream, this world\u2019s current will pull you downstream, away from Christ and His church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
‘Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it’<\/em> (Hebrews 2:1)<\/p>\n
In context, the author is writing to Jewish Christians who have increasingly become disillusioned in their faith and were in danger of drifting away’, back to their old way of life under the law of Moses. The book of Hebrews was written to persuade these embattled believers that Jesus is better than, and the fulfilment of, the Old Testament law and promises. The author urges them to ‘pay much closer attention’<\/em> to the truth of Christ.<\/p>\n