Thursday, September 3, 2009

God Does not protect us from Lonliness.

Get a load of this whopper from Purpose-Driven Heretic Rick Warren:

But
God says, “If you will do what I tell you to do, you will never again have to deal with
loneliness. You’ll be able to overcome fatigue, fear, failure, and frustration. Your life
will be so much easier
if you’ll just do it the way I planned for you to do it.” The
anecdote to all of those things is the concept of community.
(Why We Need Each Other
Transcript of Message by Rick Warren
October 2-3, 2004)
http://docs.purposedriven.org:8088/docs/40DOC/Pastor_Transcript_Sample.pdf
Excuse me, it is heretical to say, "Thus saith the Lord" when the Lord has not thus said. That makes Rick Warren a false prophet.

contrast with a more realistic view by A.W. Tozer:

"The pain of loneliness arises from the constitution of our nature. God made us for each other. The desire for human companionship is completely natural and right. The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone. The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.—Man, the Dwelling Place of God."

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