Category: Quote of the Day

It is possible to stand high in religious circles and not get out of kindergarten in the school of Christ; it is possible to hold postgraduate degrees in theology and never make third grade at the feet of the Master. Growing in knowledge is not necessarily growing in grace. One may associate with the Saviour, as Philip did, and still hear Him say, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me…?” (John 14:9). McCheyne wrote: “Men return again and again to the few who have mastered the spiritual secret, whose life has been hid with Christ in God. These are of the oldtime religion, hung to the nails of the cross” – men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross!

It does little good to wring out hands and lament the inroads of television, ball games, and other attractions on our church attendance. If we do not have enough vitality to compete with all this, maybe it doesn’t matter much whether we have our meetings or not. If the gospel means so little to us that it can be sidetracked by every sideshow that blows into town, it wouldn’t mean much if such people did gather to go through the hollow motions of a dead faith. It is certain that the answer does not lie in stubbornly holding on to the form when the power had departed. We seem to be preaching and promoting something while most of its adherents wouldn’t miss it much if they lost it! There is something frightfully wrong when we have to beg most of our crowd to come to church to hear about it.