DISCIPLINE IS DISMISSED

 

  By A. W. Tozer

 

  Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they

  straightway left their nets, and followed him

                                                                  Matthew 4:19-20

 

   We live in a land noted and favored for its freedom; a

 country where Protestant Christianity is popular and well

 accepted.

 

   I noted this to speak of one of the great spiritual

 dangers inherent in Protestantism, the fact that there is

 no discipline involved.  Anyone in our churches is pretty

 much free to do anything he wants to do.  If he does not

 like one church he has only to cross the street and go to

 another.  If he does not like the preacher, he can leave and

 soon be attending a church where he is quite pleased with

 the  preacher  and  with  the  music  and  with  the

 atmosphere.

 

  You see, he is demanding Christianity without

discipline.  He is  refusing  to  acknowledge  that  the

Christian faith makes its own demands of obedience to

God and humility of spirit.

 

  When his personal desires take the upper hand, the

voice of the Spirit of God is stifled and silenced.  There

can be only one result -- the human soul will become

starved and deformed! 

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.