Be zealous therefore,
and repent. – Rev 3:19
In what ways are we Evangelicals/Pentecostals
as guilty as those who worship Mary?
1: Intermediary
Just as Mary has been (unscripturally) placed
as a placatory intermediary between us and an unapproachable God, we have
created this construct called FAITH that serves as an intermediary between us
and a God who would not act except through faith. So instead of spending our
time looking up to God we spend our time checking up on our Faith.
3: Blind Devotion:
There’re Christians who consider Mary
untouchable! She is perfect, sinless and faultless. These persons are easily
offended if anything less than
deferential is said about her. I’ve seen this behaviour also among Evangelicals
with respect to Faith. For example, they’ll act scandalised if you state that
God can sometimes heal without faith;
(even though this is a biblically documented fact).
Wrong View of God
While I’m cool with Mary praying for me,
(heaven knows I need all the help I can get), John 16:26-27 tells me why that
expectation is fundamentally faulty.
Our Lord says, “At that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I
will pray the Father for you: For the
Father himself loves you, …”
A God who would not lift up a finger to help
except through the placations of his ‘mother’ – or of ‘FAITH’ – is not a God of
love. It’s also not the character of the God of the Bible.
4: Wrong Focus
The Focus of Christianity is CHRIST. If a total
outsider observing us cannot easily make that conclusion – by observing either
our Iconography (Mary) or our Theology (Faith) – then we need to amend our
ways.
AMEN.
More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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