If we are not building our lives on the foundation of God’s Word, then something else will take its place.
Pastor Colin Dye says:
“Once confidence in the Word of God is lost, then the bedrock of revelation is removed. This means all that’s left to build upon are the sinking sands of human opinion.”
Colin Dye, Hearts on Fire: Walking in Personal Revival p105, (Dovewell, London, 2002).
It’s true. Without the external revelation of the Word of God, all we are left with is the subjective and shifting ground of human opinion. Postmodern relativistic thinking has shaped our culture to the point where many pastors and leaders have a crisis of confidence. Many are reluctant to speak with any degree of certainty about anything other than increasingly typical moralistic mantras of the day. At that point the inconsistency of relativism becomes apparent. It’s not really a rejection of absolute truth claims, it’s just a rejection of what is regarded to be socially unacceptable truth claims. Again, the problem with all of this is the simple reality that human opinion and preference is exalted above the plain teaching of scripture.
Rev John James 