*         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.*