The Church Is Something Beautiful

The Reality Of Living By Faith As Though We Were Already Dead, Of Living By Faith In Open Communion With God, And Then Stepping Back Into The External World As Though We Are Already Raised From The Dead, This Is Not Once For All, It Is A Matter Of Moment-by-moment Faith, And Living Moment By Moment. This Morning's Faith Will Never Do For This Noon. The Faith Of This Noon Will Never Do For Suppertime . The Faith Of Suppertime Will Never Do For The Next Morning. Thank God For The Reality For Which We Were Created, A Moment-by-moment Communication With God Himself.

A Compassionate Open Home Is Part Of Christian Responsibility, And Should Be Practiced Up To The Level Of Capacity.

Some Psychological And Sociological Conditioning Occurs In Every Man's Life And This Affects The Decisions He Makes. But We Must Resist The Modern Concept That All Sin Can Be Explained Merely On The Basis Of Conditioning.

We Should Not View Men With A Cynical Eye, Seeing Them Only As Meaningless Products Of Chance, But, On The Other Hand, We Should Not Go To The Opposite Extreme Of Seeing Them Romantically. To Do Either Is To Fail To Understand Who Men Really Are--creatures Made In The Image Of God But Fallen.

In The 20th Century, Evangelical Christians In America Have Naively Accepted The Role Assigned To Us By An Anti-religious, Anti-christian Consensus In Our Society. We Have Been Relegated To A Cultural Backwater, Where We Are Meant To Paddle Around Content In The Knowledge That We Are Merely Allowed To Exist.