The Importance of Examining the Dream

A friend of yours calls you one day and says, hey, I had a dream last night. Jesus came to me in the dream and he told me to tell you, he's giving you this affliction for a brief season. He will then heal you and it will be glorious. What just happened? You were given two pieces of art, both Van Gogh written on the bottom, but they're not both authentic paintings. So what you do is you go to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and you examine every brushstroke. And without rejecting the individual that had the contrary dream, without shaming or spitefully speaking to them, we embrace one and we put down the other