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CHURCH AND THE WORLD Daniel, who pens these lines, was converted in the Autumn of 1955, will soon have been the Lord’s for fifty-six years. In those years, many changes have been observed in the Evangelical Church scene which could fairly be described as nothing less than a transformation. Sadly, all of that metamorphis has been from light to darkness. The faith once delivered to the Saints which JUDE demands should be earnestly contended for, has been abandoned. What a tragedy! The denomination that was the home of my conversion, in which Bible College I graduated and in which, for a time ministerial credentials were held , could have been truly described as a “Pentecostal Holiness” movement. There was a very clear separation from the world. In truth, Church and world were poles apart. Tragically, today the Church is little more than a religious club where almost anything goes. This sea-change has been incremental over more than half a century. Insidious would be an apt description. It has been orchestrated from the underworld and overseen by the master tactition of darkness, even Satan himself. Few, in those long ago days, used the drugs, alcohol and nicotine. Worldly places of amusement were left for the world to frequent. Young Christians were encouraged to pray and seek for a Christian partner and were encouraged to keep themselves as virgins until marriage. Pre-marital co-habiting was unknown. Adultery and divorce were almost as rare. Homosexuality was seen for the abomination that God’s Holy Word depicts. For a major Pentecostal denomination to appoint an unfrocked homosexual as principal of one of its Bible Colleges as one best suited to train the next generation of “Christian Ministers” (for what we ask?), would have raised absolute “hell” in the evangelical world. Today, it does not even raise the neighbours, as this event has proved. We now present a poem of yesteryear. Old fashioned, yes, but what a telling and challenging message. It charts in graphic manner the descent of a once pure Church into the clutches of the world. It presents a host of clues as to why the Church and the world are almost indistinguishable from one another. **********************************************************
************************************************************** We close with a scripture portion for our readers to ponder. Dr A T Pierson wrote the following concerning these five verses of scripture:
are used here. It seems that the Holy Spirit
ransacked that
most copious language and exhausted its
resources to impress 2
CORINTHIANS 6 v 14- 18 “Be
ye not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness? And
what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what
part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And
what agreement hath the temple of God with
idols? for ye are the temple of the living God;
as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk
in them; and I will be their God, and they shall
be my people. Wherefore
come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;
and I will receive you, And
will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
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