Paul tells us in Ephesians 4 that one of the signs of maturity in Christian faith is that we aren't "tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching." As a pastor I see a lot of Christians who are tossed about like waves driven by the wind of some latest bandwagon of teaching or a new Christian craze or the latest "Christian" politician who is capitalizing on fear and adrenaline. They are ordering the latest book in multiples and trying to give them out to me and others to sell this new stuff.
A lot of these guys online and on YouTube are making a ton of money off this stuff. They hold weekend conferences and sell a lot of books that line their pockets. In Ephesians 4:13-14 Paul warns of these guys. He says I want you to be "growing spiritually to become a mature believer so that we are no longer children, spiritually immature, tossed back and forth like ships on a stormy sea and carried about by every wind of shifting doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of unscrupulous men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything for personal profit."
We are a culture of the latest and greatest. We are attention deficit Christians who are surfing the latest wave that is about to crash like all the others.
If you want solid teaching that will help you grow then keep your money and try just reading half of a chapter of one of Paul's letters to the churches or the words of Jesus from a Gospel instead of the latest book.
Or read an old book like "Morning and Evening Devotions" by Spurgeon. Something that has stood the test of time. John Piper says we are chronological snobs when we ignore the ancient paths. Much of this "new stuff" is going to blow away within months or even weeks. Don't be a trendy Christian. It is exhausting trying to keep up with the latest thing. Jeremiah tells us that to find rest for our souls we need only look one place. God and his Word.
"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." Jeremiah 6:16
'Nuff Said.
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