THE CURSE OF THE CHURCH

“The curse of the church has been her apathy to truth. She has nothing to fear from truth, but she has everything to fear and she has already suffered nearly everything from ignorance” (Benjamin B. Warfield).  “The old covenant was a covenant of prosperity. The new covenant is a covenant of adversity whereby we are being weaned from this present world and made ready for the world to come” (Charles Spurgeon).  “It is appropriate that a prosperity gospel (i.e., Health and Wealth) be born in the hedonistic, self-centered, get-rich-quick milieu of modern society. We are by nature pagan. Either our religion will transform us or we will transform our religion to suite our sympathies” (Michael Horton).  “Deception is birthed in half-truths ripped from their context, dressed up in desire, and spoken as revelation. Deception attempts to control God and make Him our genie-in-a-bottle, a cross between our mother and superman, promising the “good life” now. But God’s “Good Life” is Life In Abundance, our blessed hope of Eternal Life in Christ. It’s not about corruptible “stuff”, and it’s certainly not about this life now." (Me)  “For the time is coming when men will not tolerate wholesome teaching. They will want something to tickle their own fancies, and they will collect teachers who will speak what they want to hear. They will no longer listen to truth, but will wander off after man-made myths” (Paul of Tarsus).