COMPROMISE IS COSTLY

 

                                         By A. W. Tozer

 

        I pray . . . that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

         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.