Our cleverness or the Bible? MacArthur on what we say we really believe is the most powerful versus what we actually do.
Sunday, February 11th, 2007“I mean you can say you believe in the authority of scripture. So you tell me what’s most powerful: your cleverness or the Bible? You tell me what’s the most powerful. I’ll tell you when you stand up and speak what you [actually] believe. If you tell me the Bible is far more powerful and you get up in the pulpit and preach a little sermonette on a coffee machine as I’ve seen them do, or on a t.v. sitcom, what you’re telling me; that you believe the Bible is the most powerful, and what you’re doing is contradicting what you’re telling me. You don’t have any integrity. And I’m going to opt out for the fact that when you get up there in front of those people that you care to reach you’re going to use what you think is best. And if you use you and not God’s word then it doesn’t matter what you tell me about the Bible. I know by what you do what your real conviction is.†John MacArthur