The Church Is Something Beautiful

God's Word Will Never Pass Away, But Looking Back To The Old Testament And Since The Time Of Christ, With Tears We Must Say That Because Of Lack Of Fortitude And Faithfulness On The Part Of God's People, God's Word Has Many Times Been Allowed To Be Bent, To Conform To The Surrounding, Passing, Changing Culture Of That Moment Rather Than To Stand As The Inerrant Word Of God Judging The Form Of The World Spirit And The Surrounding Culture Of That Moment. In The Name Of The Lord Jesus Christ, May Our Children And Grandchildren Not Say That Such Can Be Said About Us.

Christianity Is Not A Series Of Truths In The Plural, But Rather Truth Spelled With A Capital 't.' Truth About Total Reality, Not Just About Religious Things. Biblical Christianity Is Truth Concerning Total Reality - And The Intellectual Holding Of That Total Truth And Then Living In The Light Of That Truth.

It Is Only As We Consciously Bring Each Victory To His Feet, And Keep It There As We Think Of It - And Especially As We Speak Of It - That We Can Avoid The Pride Of That Victory, Which Can Be Worse Than The Sin Over Which We Claim To Have Had The Victory.

In Face Of This Modern Nihilism, Christians Are Often Lacking In Courage. We Tend To Give The Impression That We Will Hold On To The Outward Forms Whatever Happens, Even If God Really Is Not There. But The Opposite Ought To Be True Of Us, So That People Can See That We Demand The Truth Of What Is There And That We Are Not Dealing Merely With Platitudes. In Other Words, It Should Be Understood That We Take This Question Of Truth And Personality So Seriously That If God Were Not There We Would Be Among The First Of Those Who Had The Courage To Step Out Of The Queue.

But The Dignity Of Human Life Is Unbreakably Linked To The Existence Of The Personal-infinite God. It Is Because There Is A Personal-infinite God Who Has Made Men And Women In His Own Image That They Have A Unique Dignity Of Life As Human Beings. Human Life Then Is Filled With Dignity, And The State And Humanistically Oriented Law Have No Right And No Authority To Take Human Life Arbitrarily In The Way It Is Being Taken.