Where Is This Going to Land Us?

“It is interesting that our Lord compared the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees to leaven. Leaven, or yeast, is not dormant. Leaven in a loaf of bread grows and works through the loaf until it pervades the whole. False teaching works in the same way. This means that an elder must be able to understand not only where a particular doctrine is, but also where it is going . . . Error is at its most dangerous when it seems most plausible” (Mother Kirk, p. 176).