“Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is the better.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1888
Greetings to all of you:
Spurgeon shared that thought over one-hundred years ago. He was witnessing the church accomadate its culture by devising a brand of Christianity where taking up one’s cross was optional–or even unseemly. Indeed, as John MacArthur Jr. says, many members of the church in the Western world suppose they can best serve God by being as non-confrontive to their world as possible. Having absorbed the world’s values, Christianity in our society is now dying. Subtly but surely, worldliness and self-indulgence are eating away the heart of the church.
While I stand and look from the shore toward a horizon marked by Pragmatism, Utilitarianism, and Liberalism you might think that I would just throw up my hands and surrender. To the contrary, I see what’s happening in the church and culture today as a great opportunity! The opportunity is: that Truth (preached/taught) will shine its light and expose the falseness within and without. After this past weekend it has become clearer to me that some people know what the label says, but they don’t know what the ingredients are! Let me encourage each of us to be better students of the Scriptures… to “really” know what God’s Word teaches and what IT doesn’t.
I look forward to our Christ for Maumelle Crusade. I believe that many will be saved. Have a good day and week.
Dr. Jeff Beshears
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