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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Do You Agree?

Currently, I am reading John McArthur's THE TRUTH WAR. He makes the following statement...

Much of the visible church nowadays seems to think Christians are supposed to be at play rather than at war. The idea of actually fighting for doctrinal truth is the furtherst thing from most churchgoers' thoughts. Contemporary Christians are determined to get the world to LIKE them - and of course in the process they also want to have as much fun as possible. They are so obsessed with making the church seem "cool" to unbelievers that they can't be bothered with questions about whether another person's doctrine is soudn or not. In a climate like that, the thought of even identifying someone else's teaching (much less "contending earnestly" for the faith) is a distasteful and dangerously countercultural suggestion. Christians have bought into the notion that almost nothing is more "uncool" in the word's eyes than when someone shows a sincere concern about the danger of heresy. After all, the world simply doesn't take spiritual truth that seriousy, so they cannot fathom why anyone would.

Do you agree with McArthur...?

PS - More from THE TRUTH WAR is to come...