When to Leave Your Non Heretical Church
Do you attend a not-heretical-but-not-really-deep-theologically church? BlackCalvinist has up a good post about when you should leave:
So you're at a church that doesn't teach anything overtly heretical, but the sermons are rather 'light' in doctrinal content. The preacher may be content with giving you practical (supposedly) sermons week to week which seem to be 'how to' more than anything else. All well and fine. We do need to know 'how to' from time to time. But you find yourself a bit 'critical' of the sermon week to week - "not enough meat!" So you supplement your church's sermons with podcasts from people you consider 'meatier' - MacArthur, Sproul, Piper, or any number of lesser known but solid biblical and exegetical pastors.
He uses a number of food analogies to make his case.
In food analogy terms: one cannot say that McDonalds builds up people in a healthy fashion and that real beef from one cow builds up people just as well. Both statements are mutually exclusive (if you know how McDonalds' meat gets mushed together from several different animals in varying shades of health). One is good for you and provides more nutrients for your body. One is not and provides little nutrients for your body, gives you unwanted antibiotics, possible disease contamination (because those cows aren't in the healthiest of shape and they eat a lot of filler). Both taste differently. So although both might fill you up, don't mistake being full for being healthy. Both are having different effects on your body over the long haul.
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