"There's a fair bit of nonsense out there about how we hear from God. Some of it is superspiritual claptrap that devalues the Scriptures (as when people say things like, "Yes, that was a very nice talk, but I don't want information, I want revelation"). Some of it is plain arrogance ("God has told me this Bible passage, which the world's great minds have been studying and discussing for 20 centuries, actually means this"). Some of it is Gnostic bunk ("Yes, I used to think like that, but then God took me into his confidence about so-and-so"). Some of it doesn't make any sense at all (like the preacher I heard who referred to "the inner audible voice of God"). And some of it is downright destructive ("God has told me the reason you're sick/divorced/infertile/unemployed is because of this thing you did wrong"). Speaking as a pastor in a charismatic church, I understand the impulse to avoid such rubbish by avoiding "hearing from God" language altogether."To read more click HERE.
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Andrew Wilson is a pastor and writer based in Eastbourne, UK. He is the author of If God Then What? Wondering Aloud About Truth, Origins, and Redemption, and you can find him on Twitter @AJWTheology.
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