Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 15
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I
remember the first time I heard Michael mention this term, “unbelieving
believers.” Incredible. Powerful.
Accurate.
As
a pastor for many years, I have experienced Michael’s description of preaching
to a congregation filled with unbelieving believers… It is amazing how powerful our emotions
are. And how crushing they can be when
they are working against us.
I
hope this travel through chapter 4 of this great book will do something mighty
in someone’s life…
UNBELIEVING BELIEVERS
excerpt
from pages 38-40 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 33-35 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
Is there any defeat, failure, instance
of depression, anxiety, frustration, or sin that does not have as its root
unbelief? I have asked this question to audiences all
over the world, and have yet to find one.
…an
unbelieving believer is someone who is a Christian, is born again, and will
arrive in heaven; the problem is that this person has never believed in the
Lord Jesus with his whole being…with his mind he received and believes all that is told him about the
grace, care, concern, and love of the Lord Jesus – he is a believer. And yet at the same time, he feels
that he is in charge of every aspect of his Christian life…in his emotions he
is unbelieving.
The
Church today is full of such unbelieving believers…
It
has been said that unbelief is the mother of every sin!...
…before
we look at the source of unbelief, we must understand the effects of being
unbelievers…
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Just
thinking about the term, “unbelieving believers,” sends all sorts of thoughts
and emotions through my mind and being.
What a sad testimony of life as a Christian. How can it be?
Chapter
4 is almost 30 pages long…and Michael does a superb work in showing us all
sorts of things about idols and idolatry, our concept of God, and ends with “It
is a great step of faith to go against all the lying emotions you have
concerning who God is and to just open that door to His life one time, for one
time is all that it will take for you to discover the abundant life for which you
have searched so long.”
Egads! “lying emotions.” No wonder “unbelieving believers” are so
frustrated! And as one other minister
once told me, “in the emotions of our life is where the enemy gets his hooks in
us.” This walk through Chapter 4 will
take some time…come and enjoy the journey!
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