There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

turning the Bible into their own personal sword to attack other believers simply because they disagree with their doctrinal interpretations. Some are so adamant that they alone are correct that they tag anyone who disagrees with them as a heretic . Some ministers emphasize the teaching of the cross, which is of course the theme of Paul’s ministry—to know nothing save the cross and Christ crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). However, in all of Paul’s preaching of the cross, not once did he ever use the cross in an attempt to crucify someone on it! I have heard ministers proclaim the redemptive, cleansing power of the cross with one breath and minutes later begin calling names of very godly men and women of God, calling them “enemies of the cross” and trying to publicly humiliate these ministers, all in the name of defending the faith! This is the same spirit that Christ’s disciples had when He had sent several disciples to inform the Samaritans that this Jewish prophet, Jesus, wanted to pass through their territory. The Samaritans rejected the offer, and James and John informed Christ of the city’s negative reaction and petitioned for Christ to send fire from heaven and burn the entire city to the ground. At that time Jews and Samaritans despised one another, as the Jews considered Samaritans an ethnically mixed group—part Jew and part Gentile. The angry disciples even used the Bible to justify their request to call fire down on them the way Elijah did against Baal’s prophets on Mount Carmel (Luke 9:54). Jesus rebuked them, informing them they had the wrong spirit (v. 55). Many years later the evangelist Philip preached in Samaria, and the entire city received the gospel. Converts were baptized in the Holy Spirit, and other cities and