"No Conversation Drop-Out"

Have you ever been engaged in a conversation, and been interrupted by someone who catches only a fragment of the conversation? Usually his remarks are completely unrelated to the topic under consideration, a rehash of what has already been established previously now being set forth as some great new idea. Generally, we grin, and quietly perhaps remark that "he has no intentions of becoming a conversation drop-out."
Again, in talking with God we find the same problem. Many who do not bother to listen to God seek to impress others by injecting themselves as conversational authorities. They have little real grasp of what God is saying, but feel ready and willing to start commenting and expressing their views on morality, salvation, eternity, doctrine, etc. Sometimes they even resent the efforts of others to help them or to redirect the conversation back. No one, I guess, likes to admit they were caught in such a blunder.
Those interested in listening to God can see the folly of such comments, but cannot always afford to "grin and wink" at such, lest others be led astray and turned from the true conversation (2 John 9-11, I John 2:4, Rom. 16:17), and the vital message gets side-tracked on another subject (Gal. 1:6-7). Much credit goes to Cecil Willis, Ron Halbrook and others in their efforts to stop these "no conversation drop-outs" on the subject of God's grace and fellowship today. Others have also held true to God's message in opposing neo-pentecostalism, institutionalism, the "new morality," etc. As Christians interested in helping others listen to God's important message, we need to beware those who would side-track the conversation with some unrelated comment (Jude 3).