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.