What Does Your Pastor Believe About the Bible?

# 30 – Today's Du-votional comes from 1Sa 2:11,12 Then Elkanah went to his house at Ramah. But the child ministered to the LORD before Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were corrupt; they did not know the LORD. (1 Sam 2:11,12) Eli's priestly sons are introduced here as corrupt unbelievers. The King James describes them here not just as corrupt, but as sons of Belial! Whoa! Imagine that. Sons of the devil serving as pastors in the house of God! Further, we are told that they did not “know” the Lord. The word “know speaks of intimacy. In other words neither of them had a personal relationship with God. How is such a thing possible? Sadly, it's a problem that has always been with the church. The devil is more than happy to insert false shepherds and prophets wherever and whenever they will be tolerated by the people. Isa 56:11 Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory. Mic 3:11 Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Tit 1:11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain. 2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. I am amazed, (although, if I read these last verses in 2 Timothy, I shouldn't be surprised,) at the number of churches today who are willingly led away by pastors who don't even believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God! Just because we are sheep, doesn't mean we have to be mindless. What does your pastor believe about the Bible? Is it just a collection of stories to him or her, or is it “Thus saith the Lord!” Follow truth not fable.