5 heresies Christians would rather ignore

Dr Lee Gatiss has argued Christians must be bolder in confronting false teaching. Jonty Langley agrees, but believes Christians have had too narrow a view of what constitutes heresy

It’s easy to spot the heresy that we dislike. It’s harder to spot a heresy if it supports our own natural (or fleshly) bias. We are only in the process of being perfected by Christ, so there remains in us (and in the cultures we co-create) attitudes, beliefs and assumptions that have yet to be fully conformed to the heart of God. 

Many modern heresies fall into the trap of assuming that we are fully mature, have marshalled all relevant facts and arrived at full and total truth. But, often, we are still on a journey. It is only a lack of humility (which the enemy encourages us to call ‘confidence’ or even ‘moral courage’) that allows us to presume to sift the weeds from the wheat and the wheat from the chaff.

Here are a few heretical teachings and tendencies we may have missed…