Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Love and Holiness

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The single largest problem in the church today is balance. Form or function, liturgical or free flowing, traditional or contemporary, and generational differences cause more strife than most ministers could ever try to remedy. But one "OR" reigns above them all, and if we don't get this one right, nothing else matters.


"When Christians and evangelical churches do not have the courage to stress the balance of the exhibition of the love of God and the holiness of God and to make an absolute distinction between cultural norms and biblical absolutes, a whole generation is being opened to the possibility of ...rejecting Christ himself."
Francis A. Schaeffer, Back to Freedom and Dignity, Ch. 8

"Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes"
Standing on the shoulders of giants

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