A LESSON FROM NATURE IN AN AGE OF CHANGE

King Solomon found it useful to draw illustrations from nature to teach his moral lessons. Ants teach diligence, locusts team work, lizards audacity and conies wise planning (Prov. 30:25-28). Nature also provides Christian leaders useful lessons in this day when liberal proponents of change are surfacing throughout our brotherhood.

As termites delight to feed on the foundations of find old homes and eventually bring them to ruin, so the liberal preacher or disciple loves to eat away at the foundations of a congregation.  Termites do their destructive work secretly and quietly. The unsuspecting owner never realizes their presence until serious damage is done. So the liberal does his work in a congregation. Many an unsuspecting eldership has labored under the false impression that they had a great servant of God in their midst.  Thinking he was building up the body of Christ, they discovered later he had undermined their authority and subverted their leadership. Consequently the congregation fell into the hands of those who had abandoned the faith of Christ for a new gospel (Gal. 1:6-7).

As the chameleon can change his colors to match his environment, so the liberal can put on varies faces as the occasion demands. If asked pointblank if he is teaching error, he can easily deny it or couch his answer is slippery words designed to fool his questioner. He can affect an air of being crushed that anyone would doubt his loyalty to the old Biblical ways. 

In the presence of strong conservatives he can appear to be one of them. But with a fellow liberal he can take on his hue. He is capable of preaching good sermons that have the ring of the old "Jerusalem gospel" but he can go into a home and cast doubt on the foundational truths of the religion of Christ. 

Speaking for a liberal church he can give them just what they wish to hear, and then do the same for a conservative congregation.  To a liberal, truth is a malleable, subjective thing. He does not believe it to be hard and fast.
Also he tends to believe that his agenda for changing the church justifies his being like the chameleon to achieve his goal.

Just as mice never wait for an invitation, so liberals will insinuate themselves in to a congregation and begin to make it their own. They rarely wait to be invited to come and change a church.  They take it upon themselves to do so.  Just as no thinking person wants mice in his home, no spiritual minded elder wants to have a liberal at work in the congregation he leads. 
Once ensconced they are hard to get rid of and they are destructive.

In delivering his lessons from nature, Solomon said, :"Go to the ant...Consider her ways and be wise" (Prov. 6:6). Wise leaders will remember the termite, the chameleon and the mouse and be wise.