COMPROMISE IS COSTLY

By A. W. Tozer

I'm not asking you to take them out of the world,
but to keep them safe from Satan's power.
John 17:15

        Christianity today is so entangled with this present
world that millions never guess how radically they have
missed the New Testament pattern.

        Compromise is everywhere---but actually no real union
between  the  world  and  the Church is possible.  When the
Church  joins  up  with  the  world  it is  the true Church no
longer, but only a pitiful  hybrid  thing, an object of smiling
contempt to the world,  and  an  abomination  to  the  Lord!

        Nothing could be clearer than the pronouncements of
the Scriptures on the Christian's relation to the world. The
confusion which gathers around this matter results from the
unwillingness of professing Christians to take the Word of
the Lord seriously.

        This whole thing is spiritual in its essence. A Christian
is what he is, not  by  ecclesiastical  manipulation,  but by the
new  birth.  He  is  a  Christian  because  of  a  Spirit  which
dwells  in  him. Only  that  which  is  born  by  the  Spirit is
spirit, no matter how many church dignitaries work on it!

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.