THE THIEF COMES TO STEAL, KILL & DESTROY (PART XX)
“Sheep Recognize the Shepherd’s Voice” By Akin Ojumu One Verse Doctrine (OVD) or One Verse Theology (OVT) is the term used to describe the ungodly and biblically erroneous practice of plucking a single Bible verse out of its proper context and scrubbing it out of its original intended meaning to create, promote, and push a theological belief or doctrine. The resulting effect is a faulty, sketchy, skewed, and dubious understanding of the subject addressed by the Bible verse. The modern-day Church is like a landfill of OVDs and OVTs; its landscape is littered with debris of mangled Bible texts twisted and distorted beyond recognition. A few of such mutilated Bible passages include the following. Proverbs 23:7a “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” Proverbs 29:18a “Where there is no vision, the people perish…” Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” As they are commonly interpreted, every single one of the above Bibl...