A prominent Baptist theologian has offered advice on how Christians can discern if God is speaking to them in dreams.
Roger E. Olson, professor of Christian Theology of Ethics at George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, shared a past personal experience in which he said God spoke to him and encouraged him to expose an influential pastor who was living a double-life.
Olson said he has encountered many stories of people saying God spoke to them in dreams over his years of teaching Christian theology at four universities, and has spoken with African church leaders who attest that millions of believers around the world have had such experiences.
“Apparently, from what I am told, this phenomenon is almost universally believed as real and even normal by Christians in Africa,” he wrote on his blog recently.
“The influential African Christian leader, the leader of thousands of churches even outside of Africa, throughout the world, strongly affirmed his belief in the reality of this form of continuing personal revelation — while emphasizing that it can be a source of confusion and needs pastoral care and discernment,” he added, without naming the leader.
Olson noted that the Bible supports many instances of God speaking to…
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