Hermeneutics

The purpose of this section is to appropriate some of the misinterpretations of the Word of God. The Minister in charge, John Adedapo sometimes refers to this section as "Righting the Wrong Doctrines and Teachings Around Us". It is an Apologetics section. In Jesus' days there were different religious groups such as the Sanhedrin, the Sadducees, the Scribes, and of course, the Pharisees, to mention but just a few. Some adherents of these groups confronted Jesus (on many grounds) especially of blasphemy based on their own logic, theories, secular knowledge and myopic understanding of the Word. Unfortunately, the contemporary church is not immune. Christianity today is still facing similar challenges being full of different religious organisations and bigots with their own heresies, human-adulterated doctrines, diluted teachings and indoctrinations. Many of these heretics intentionally target the Word of God - to antagonize the Word, to discredit Jesus' salvation work, as well as to rubbish God's salvation plan. Our Pastor invalidates some of these false teachings cum fallacies in the face of the true Word of God.

But why are erroneous teachings still rampant in our society today? his is due to a number of reasons: Some do misinterpret because of sheer ignorance: their shallow or limited understanding of the Scripture. Some people do it intentionally to distort the truth and mislead the gullible or to derail and misguide others from the true way. For some, it is due to their faulty initial religious background - with unholy passion they jump into the scripture and begin to teach. Some do it only to fill their own belly - their stomach is their god, Philippians 3:19 says, ”Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things” (NIV). Also for some it is to make jest, trivialize the Word of God. And of course, others do it in order to please the people - what their people want to hear is what they teach and preach. Whether it is intentional or otherwise, we are here to address as well as to rectify it.

The Bible says, “Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:15-16) NIV.

Here in this section, our Pastor, John Adedapo opens the Word of God right before us sometimes with different analogies. You cannot afford to miss any of these appropriation teachings and explanations with biblical illustrations.