How To Teach So Nobody Will be Converted

David Diestelkamp -

Reverse the principles from First Thessalonians and you’ll see teaching that converts no one…

  1. Be unwilling to suffer. Refuse to put yourself out or risk anything for Christ (2:1-2)
  2. Be timid (2:2)
  3. Use tricks and deceit (2:3)
  4. Please men. Make popularity more important than pleasing God (2:4)
  5. Flatter men. Teach only to flatter and impress rather than convict people of sin (2:5)
  6. Seek glory for yourself (2:6)
  7. Don’t ever be gentle. Beat people down with the truth (2:7).
  8. Be selfish. Be unwilling to give or yourself to others (2:8)
  9. Be inconsistent. Don’t practice what you preach (2:10)
  10. Only focus on the negative. Never commend anybody for doing a good job or what is right (2:11-13).
  11. Compromise. Don’t expect people to accept that the Bible really is the word of God (2:13).
  12. Only focus on the positive. Don’t ever show people that they must be willing to give things up and suffer for Christ (2:14).
  13. Never make applications. Rebuke sin in general terms without ever teaching against specific sins seen in a congregations (2 Th 3:11)

First and Second Thessalonians says do the opposite of these and the gospel will make a difference in lives!      

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