Half Truths, Part 4: God Said It, I Believe It, that Settles It
Friends, we’re now in the fourth part of this five part sermon series I put together based on a book titled Half Truths by a United Methodist colleague named Adam Hamilton. In Half Truths, Hamilton presents five different Christian cliches, platitudes we spout off too often to one another, often when we’re going through a hard time, or we know someone else who is. Many of us even believe these cliches are scriptural, but they aren’t. We’re looking at the limitations of these phrases, and what we might replace them with. The cliche we’re looking at this week is the only one in this book that I’ve actually never heard anyone say: “God said it, I believe it, that settles it.” This is simply a cultural difference between me and Hamilton. This is the longer way to say a cliche I’ve heard many times, one I suspect you’ve heard, too: “the Bible says __ in black and white.” But, before we get into the shortcomings of that phrase, first, many words about that Psalm I just asked our poor l...