Monday, March 20, 2006
Booth. C (1880) Aggressive Christianity
This is the way to get the world to look at it. Show the world a real, living, self-sacrificing, hardworking, toiling ,triumphing religion, and the world will be influenced by it; but anything short of that they will turn round and spit upon.
Pp7
While the gospel message is laid down with unerring exactness, we are left at perfect freedom to adapt our measures and modes of bringing it to bear upon men to the circumstances, times and conditions in which we live… Adapt your measures to your circumstances and to the necessities of the times in which you live. Pp 50-51
So you see the law begets first a knowledge of sin; secondly, it begets guilt and condemnation on account of sin; and thirdly, desire after righteousness and effort to attain it
R0 8:4 righteousness pp 108
On selfish religion
“You want him saved, so that he may get into HEAVEN, not that he might serve, honour and glorify God. You don’t care at all about that. He might live on in disobedience. Oh, be as much concerned for the honour of God as you are for your friend’s Salvation at the last…” 117
If you can cast a reflection upon the character or the veracity of a witness, you shake his testimony, and take away its value. Oh! How important that Christ’s witness should be good witnesses – that is, that they should fairly and truly represent Him and His truth – for if they misrepresent Him, somebody is sure to be damned through their inconsistency…. 124
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Pp7
While the gospel message is laid down with unerring exactness, we are left at perfect freedom to adapt our measures and modes of bringing it to bear upon men to the circumstances, times and conditions in which we live… Adapt your measures to your circumstances and to the necessities of the times in which you live. Pp 50-51
So you see the law begets first a knowledge of sin; secondly, it begets guilt and condemnation on account of sin; and thirdly, desire after righteousness and effort to attain it
R0 8:4 righteousness pp 108
On selfish religion
“You want him saved, so that he may get into HEAVEN, not that he might serve, honour and glorify God. You don’t care at all about that. He might live on in disobedience. Oh, be as much concerned for the honour of God as you are for your friend’s Salvation at the last…” 117
If you can cast a reflection upon the character or the veracity of a witness, you shake his testimony, and take away its value. Oh! How important that Christ’s witness should be good witnesses – that is, that they should fairly and truly represent Him and His truth – for if they misrepresent Him, somebody is sure to be damned through their inconsistency…. 124
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