Added Ingredients

One of the most significant problems with illicit drugs is the reality that they are often mixed with other drugs to create a greater dependence on the part of the user, thereby ensuring the seller will find an increase in repeat business.

Here’s the latest:

A drug so powerful that it’s used to sedate elephants is finding a new, illicit use laced into heroin, potentially contributing to hundreds of overdoses in the last several weeks.The drug, called Carfentanil, is a synthetic opioid so strong that just a few granules the size of grains of table salt can be lethal. Since mid-August, roughly 300 people in at least four states have overdosed on heroin linked to Carfentanil and the less powerful compound fentanyl. (TIME)

Drug users – even the casual and/or infrequent participants – are likely to cross the path of mixed drugs even when buying from a “good friend.”

The Truth is we find the same sort of problem in the Church of Jesus Christ. Unscrupulous at worst, or casual at best, preachers mix error with Truth in an attempt to make that Truth more palatable to those who are unwilling to hear, believe, and embrace the similes and metaphors of Scripture which depict God’s children as, for example, “soldiers in a war with the Enemy,” or those Truths that demand a discipline of absolute holiness before God, and total commitment to the “inasmuch” and “one another” ministries toward His family, the Church.

It is not surprising that the Church has little standing in society at large, minuscule impact on the morality of our Nation, and practically zero influence in the political realm. We often sacrifice the potency of God’s Spirit within us for the ease of a life of non-confrontational “religion” that is neither accurate nor sufficient to fulfill our calling as “ambassadors for Christ.” (see 2 Corinthians 5:20)

One might say (see the quote from TIME above), “what hope have we of sedating elephants when we cannot overcome the ants that invade our kitchen or the fleas that attacks our dog.”