SPIRITUALLY UNWORTHY
By Apprising Administrator on Aug 2, 2006 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Devotions, Emergent Church, Roman Catholicism, Word Faith
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? (1 Corinthians 5:6, ESV)
The warped and toxic fruit, as Rob Bell might say, of this Emergent and Purpose Driven new evangelical rebellion against the absolute authority of God’s inerrant and infallible Word in the Bible, whose root is in the apostate Church of Rome, shows that A.W. Tozer was exactly right when he wrote:
The task of the Church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.
Christianity will always reproduce itself after its own kind. A worldly-minded, unspiritual church, when she crosses the ocean to give her witness to peoples of other tongues and other cultures, is sure to bring forth on other shores a Christianity much like her own.
The popular notion that the first obligation of the Church is to spread the Gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth is false. Her first obligation is to be spiritually worthy to spread it. Our Lord said, Go ye, but He also said, Tarry ye, and the tarrying had to come before the going.
Had the disciples gone forth as missionaries before the Day of Pentecost it would have been an overwhelming spiritual disaster, for they could have done no more than make converts after their own likeness, and this would have altered for the whole history of the Western world and had consequences throughout the ages to come. (Of God and Men, 36,37)
…he who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Church…