This Is Not An Age In Which

Jesus Taught That The Mark Of The Christian Is The Observable Love Shown Among All True Believers.

If There Is No Final Place For Civil Disobedience, Then The Government Has Been Made Autonomous, And As Such, It Has Been Put In The Place Of The Living God.

The Command Is To Love Him, Not Just To Think About Him, Or Do Things For Him. We Are Not To Stop With A Proper Legal Relationship - For Example, To Think Of A Man As Legally Lost, Which He Is, In The Sight Of A Holy God - Without Thinking Of Him As A Person. Saying This, We Can Suddenly See That Much Evangelism Is Not Only Sub-christian, But Subhuman - Legalistic And Impersonal.

Sadly Enough, There Is A Kind Of An Anti-intellectualism Among Many Christians: Spirituality Is Falsely Pitted Against Intellectual Comprehension As Though They Stood In A Dichotomy. Such Anti-intellectualism Cuts Away At The Very Heart Of The Christian Message. Of Course, There Is A False Intellectualism Which Does Destroy The Work Of The Holy Spirit. But It Does Not Arise When Men Wrestle Honestly With Honest Questions And Then See That The Bible Has The Answers. This Does Not Oppose True Spirituality.

So Our Building Of The Visible Church Becomes Much Like Any Natural Business Function, Using Natural Means And Natural Motives.