To Die Is To Be With The

There Is A Sad Myth Going Around Today - The Myth Of Neutrality. According To This Myth, The Secular World Gives Every Point Of View An Equal Chance To Be Heard. And It Works Fairly Well - Unless You Are A Christian.

Technologically, Modern Man Does Everything He Can Do-he Functions On This Single Boundary Principle. Modern Man, Seeing Himself As Autonomous, With No Personal-infinite God Who Has Spoken, Has No Adequate Universal To Supply An Adequate Second Boundary Condition; And Man Being Fallen Is Not Only Finite, But Sinful. Thus Man's Pragmatically Made Choices Have No Reference Point Beyond Human Egotism. It Is Dog Eat Dog, Man Eat Man, Man Eat Nature.

Doctrinal Rightness And Rightness Of Ecclesiastical Position Are Important, But Only As A Starting Point To Go On Into A Living Relationship - And Not As Ends In Themselves.

It Is Not Enough For The Church To Be Engaged With The State In Healing Social Ills, Though This Is Important At Times. But When The World Can Turn Around And See A Group Of God's People Exhibiting Substantial Healing In The Area Of Human Relationships In Their Present Life, Then The World Will Take Notice. Each Group Of Christians Is, As It Were, A Pilot Plant, Showing That Something Can Be Done In The Present Situation, If Only We Begin In The Right Way.

But The Fact That Christ As The Bridegroom Brings Forth Fruit Through Me As The Bride, Through The Agency Of The Indwelling Holy Spirit By Faith, Opens The Way For Me As A Christian To Begin To Know In The Present Life The Reality Of The Supernatural. This Is Where The Christian Is To Live. Doctrine Is Important, But It Is Not An End In Itself. There Is To Be An Experiential Reality, Moment By Moment.