Religion Fails If It Cannot Speak To

Certainly Christianity Is An Experience, But Equally Clearly The Validity Of Ane Experience Has To Be Tested. There Are People In Lunatic Asylums Who Have The Experience Of Being The Emperor Napoleon Or A Poached Egg. It Is Unquestionably An Experience, And To Them A Real Experience, But For All That It Has No Kind Of Universal Validity. It Is Necessary To Go Far Beyond Simply Saying That Something Comes From Experience. Before Any Such Thing Can Be Evaluated At All, The Source And Character Of The Experience Must Clearly Be Investigated.

For The Christian, Heaven Is Where Jesus Is. We Do Not Need To Speculate On What Heaven Will Be Like. It Is Enough To Know That We Will Be For Ever With Him.

The Danger Of Prosperity Is That It Encourages A False Independence.

If We Are To Accept The Teaching Of Jesus At All, Then The Only Test Of The Reality Of A Man's Religion Is His Attitude To His Fellow Men. The Only Possible Proof That A Man Loves God Is The Demonstrated Fact That He Loves His Fellow Men.

So Often We Have A Kind Of Vague, Wistful Longing That The Promises Of Jesus Should Be True. The Only Way Really To Enter Into Them Is To Believe Them With The Clutching Intensity Of A Drowning Man.