Hello and thanks for visiting the Soul Doctor. You are always welcome, for it may be “thou art a stranger, and also an exile.” (2 Sam. 15:19).

I am your brother, a slave of Christ, Stephen Gibney and I am the preacher in exile, one among many I am sure. No, I do not have a martyrs complex (and how I wish I was being melodramatic) but the rejection of biblical truth has made me and others, who have not bowed and kissed the feet of Baal at least unpopular and at most exiled, for now. The Baalists come in the form of the pseudo revivalism, the church growth movement and the parasitic emergent church philosophy.  We have not received death threats, there have been no burnings at the stake, only the cold indifference of denominations, family and fellow preachers in league with political agenda, psychological heresy and pop theology. You will not be asked to speak, you won’t be given a title and if you fervently take a stand for Christ it will cost you and for a time you may have to stay a few nights at Wartburg Castle.

The church has always been known as “strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” (1 Pet. 2:11). But I think God’s people are confused and bewildered because they see people in the church, born of flesh, with a form of godliness and no heavenly power that call themselves Christians. Strangers have come into the house of the Lord (Jer. 51:51) and they have taken possession of places they ought not to have and alienated the people of God. “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” (2 Tim. 2:19).

The preachers of today are so afraid of their people, they have become debtors to their church growth programs and work desperately to sell, sell, sell them!  Who has time to exposit the Bible when we are busy keeping our people busy and feeling good about themsleves. They have ended up sacrificing the preaching of Christ Crucified at the expense of the souls of men and women! They will be held accountable.  Whether ignorantly or deliberately they have taken away the key to the door of the true knowledge of God and doom themselves and others. They will not enter into it and they hinder anyone else from getting in by their failure to preach the word of God (Luke 11:52).  They spin doctor the message of Christ to their own desires, out of their own vision and dreams but they have never stood in the counsel of the Lord because God says, “if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.” (Jer. 23:18-22).

The carpeted aisles and padded pews where Churchians sit in their post modern mindset cannot stomach much more than motivational baby talk.  Preachers are so craven and so cowardly is there any hope for their own salvation, needless to say the salvation of others? They have forgotten the words of Paul, “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.” (1 Tim. 4:16).  Any real man who really has the courage to preach undiluted scripture today, their words would be like melted steel on tender skin.

But Christ also speaks words to repentant hearts that heal the soul. His truth is as sharp as a surgeons scalpel but he mends the heart and leaves no scar but a fresh heart, renewed mind and abundant life. Christ is the Great Physician and the Soul Doctor.  In many of our churches faith, hope and charity have evacuated and people are spiritually sick.  Thank God these virtues can find an open door it would seem in the hearts of the what the church sees as the worst of sinners (Matt. 21:31). Only Christ full of truth and grace can pour in the wine and oil to our wounds (Luke 10:34). It is my prayer that real healing, real salvation will come to you through the genuine proclamation of the Bible!