Jim from Old Truth had the following great story from Steve Camp. I think it’s a fantastic approach to the “I have a word from the Lord for you” crowd. The very crowd I was associated with for several years in my early Christian walk. (Funny how so many of them had “a word” but so few of them read “the Word”). I wish more people would be this discerning.

A young man stood up in the middle of the auditorium and shouted to me, “Brother Steve, I have a word from the Lord for you.” Taken a bit back by his rudeness, but impressed with his courage, I asked him politely, “OK, what Bible verse did you want to share with me?” He said, “Oh no, this is a word directly from God for you personally.”

Steve Camp said back to him: “I know every verse is penned by the Lord–it is all directly from Him to us. So what Bible verse did you want to share with me?” Becoming more and more frustrated at his inability to ‘woo’ me to his words of “divine revelation,” I finally agreed to let him speak with one condition (and believe me, I was being generous in letting it go this far); I told him, “Everything you say must agree perfectly with God’s final revelation in His Word. If anything you say, no matter how trivial, disagrees with Scripture, then I will have to rebuke you in front of all these people and then we will all have to take you outside and stone you to death!” With those ground rules stated, he thought for a moment and then said these profound words, “Maybe it was a feeling I had?” I said, “Good answer man–now sit down.”

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