Our fathers believed in sin and the devil and hell . . . [and in] God and righteousness and heaven. . . . Humans, our fathers held, had to choose sides — they could not be neutral. For them it must be life or death, heaven or hell, and if they chose to come out on God’s side, they could expect open war with God’s enemies. The fight would be real and deadly and would last as long as life continued here below. . . .
How different today. . . . People think of the world not as a battleground, but as a playground. We are not here to fight; we are here to frolic. We are not in a foreign land; we are at home. . . . [This idea] has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of fundamentalist Christians. They might hedge around the question . . . but their conduct gives them away.
A.W. Tozer, cited in The Berean Call, April 1993, “Quotable.”
Good word for such a time as this.
ReplyDeleteFar too many have forgotten the sword is two edged.