"In our eagerness to tell the world that Christ satisfies we have gone to the extreme of presenting a popular Christianity. When we laugh and joke and act the clown at the beginning of the service, and at the close become serious and warn the unsaved of their impending doom, it is difficult for them to realize that we are sincere." (italics in original)
" Today, all the advertising is centered around the preachers and the singers, and they are so glamorous..."
"It was the custom when there were mighty preachers in London for people to go "sermon-tasting." A man and his wife once heard two great preachers, one on Sunday morning and the other on Sunday evening. The whole day long the man kept saying of the morning preacher, 'What a wonderful preacher, what a wonderful preacher.' In the evening, he and his wife went to hear _______ _______ (name omitted by MC). Down the stairs of the Metropolitan Tabernacle they came, tears rolling down their checks, and saying, "Oh what a wonderful Saviour! Oh, what a wonderful Saviour I have!'"
"For my part, I absolutely refuse to entertain, either older believers who are often cold and carnal, or young believers who have no have no depth, and no spirituality... I refuse to entertain sinners on their way to hell."
These are from a book I am reading. Isn't it easy to read an "amen" book - one with which we quickly and easily agree? The danger, I find, is in becoming self-complacent and arrogant. I often find myself saying emphatically, "Amen! Preach it!" but rarely moved to change or action. That is why I'm closing...
Oh, the book - "Evangelism" by James A. Stewart - Lamplighter Publications. It is an old book -which makes the comments even more significant for today.
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