Coming out of the closet

Here we go, I’ve waited a long time to say this and I’m almost embarrassed to think that I haven’t thought about saying this before.  I am coming out of the closet, that’s right out of the closet.  I am no longer going be a person who stands in the pulpit, like so many others, and doesn’t share with my congregants what I believe and what I stand for.

So here it goes, wait for it, I …believe…in…the …Bible! That’s right, I believe in the Bible, the inerrant, infallible, wholly inspired word of God.  I believe in the literal creation that God spoke the world in to existence in seven (7) literal 24-hour days.  I believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah who was born of a virgin, and was fully man and fully God.  I believe that Jesus was crucified dead and buried and was literally raised from the dead on the third day and now sits at the right hand of God the Father.  I believe that not all paths lead to heaven and that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no man comes to the Father except through Him.  Wow, I feel so much better now that I have gotten that my chest.  I am no longer a preacher that lives in the closet of believing some of the Bible, as many “pastors” do, I believe all of it.

What has happened to society that places up on a pedestal a preacher who in many cases is just a good speaker or showman who doesn’t even believe in the Bible in its entirety?  Do we want a show and to be entertained?  Or do we want a God fearing man or woman who brings the word everyday and more importantly lives the word as well?  I suggest there are and have been many ministers who have fallen from grace because the preaching gig was too good of a job to give up and they did not believe in what they were doing or saying.  That is the same in our public servant’s lives as well.  One man with one woman is a concept that is looked on as old fashioned today.  Now, one man sexts or tweets or emails someone who is not his wife for the express reason to make him feel like he is “the man”?  How about sleeping with someone who is not your wife and getting them pregnant?  What dishonor they have brought to themselves, their families, and their public offices.  If more people would read their Bible, and more preachers would preach the Bible, more people would believe the Bible and think about eternal consequences not just feeling good for a moment or two.  Please pray for our country.