Wow!!! I looked at the calendar today and realized that it has been slightly over six years….
since I decided to leave the charismatic church I was attending at that time and start attending the ‘hybrid’ Evangelical Presbyterian church that believed in the Scripture as taught by the Reformers and the sovereign move of the Holy Spirit.
I look back on the slow walk (especially at the wilderness I was walking through in other areas of that time) and alot of things hit me. I have become alot more Word conscious and have seen alot of the flakiness appear to be more flakier than I had originally thought. The charismatics / pentecostals that loved to portray themselves as ‘Job’ seemed to be alot more like Job’s friends who tried their best to blame the suffering on Job himself. I saw how pragmatism has creeped in and mistaken success for anointing, conceit for praise, politics for power, and parties for praise.
However, for some reason in these past five years, I have had alot of problems retaining in my memory all the Solas, Confessions, Catechisms, etc. I’ve read and read them over and over again but for some wierd reason can not retain what I have read even though I am getting better at retaining the Scripture that I have read to the book, chapter, and verse they reside in.
Even though I love reading them, retaining them is something that has baffled me as to why I have not been able to.
Perhaps many of the creeds and confessions don’t really apply to things in your life right now. I am thinking of a way they could be taught so that they would be more relevant to our lives today isntead of jsut a bunch of sttements/questions-answers.