I believe that the most important issue facing us in the rest of this century, will not be tongues, Calvinism, works, war, liberalism, modernism, evolution, false religions, or ethics. It’s an issue you may have never even thought about, because it’s come in undercover. While Christians have been attacking errors all over, this one has come in so slowly, so carefully, that it’s broken in all over Christianity, even in conservative circles.

In the past years, claims about the Holy Spirit’s work have spread across the entire world. Many have professed to have had the Holy Spirit work in their lives through “tongues” and other emotional experiences, and the “gifts of the Spirit” have received a lot of publicity.

I remember listening once to part of a recorded lecture from a supposedly conservative Christian college that would have openly proclaimed a belief in the inerrancy of Scripture. It’s been years now since I heard the lecture, but I still remember it clearly, because it had such an effect on me. The teacher was speaking about a verse in I John, and he declared in front of his students that this verse did not belong in the Scriptures.