If you ask my wife she would say I’m too quick to judge. And that as a so called “Beaver” character when I do look at things I’m too negative. I usually counter with I’m being Discerning or cleverly Realistic. It is hard to our own faults.
I do struggle with finishing Andrew Murray’s Little Book on Humility.
That being said this almost 25 year old article does seem to capture some of the dangerous drift that can be seem in the Evangelical Community of the Visible Church. It’s also true that so many neighborhood churches do all follow much the same model….and in many ways look very much the same, regardless of whether they are small in size or an ultra large megachurch.
So for perspective, maybe this article says where the church is headed, or maybe where it is now…or has been..some things to consider:
“But for each of the areas it is vital to realize that the temptations we face are often exceedingly subtle. Some evangelical biographies and histories give the impression that difficult decisions only need to be made when we reach a watershed moment, a clear-cut choice between truth and error.
In reality, such crisis points come about because of daily decisions, made on a minute scale and over a period of time, either to assume evangelical distinctives or actively articulate them.
Individually, every day, we face the choice whether to sit under the Bible alone, to run to the cross alone and look to Christ alone, or to begin to shift our gaze on to other things.
Once we begin simply to assume these truths, then we are already beginning to stop “acting in line with the truth of the gospel” (Gal. 2:14). The potential consequences for ourselves are harmful; for the generation following us they are disastrous.”
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