We may as well face it, the whole levelof spirituality among us is low. We havemeasured ourselves by ourselves until theincentive to seek the higher plateaus inthe Spirit is gone.Large and influential sections of fundamentalChristianity have gone overboard for practicesthat are wholly unscriptural, and altogetherunjustifiable in the light of historic Christiantruth, and deeply damaging to the inner lifeof the individual Christian. They have imitatedthe world, sought popular favor, manufactureddelights to substitute for the joy of the Lordand produced a cheap and synthetic substitutefor the working of the Holy Spirit.The fact is that we today are NOT producingsaints. The average so-called Christian inour times is but a wretched parody of truesainthood. Yet we put millions of dollarsbehind movements to perpetuate this degenerateform of religion and attack the man who daresto question the wisdom of it.Clearly, we must begin to produce betterChristians. We must insist on New Testamentsainthood for our converts, nothing less; andwe must lead them into a state of heart purity,of separation from the world, and poured outdevotion to the Savior. Only in this way canthe low level of spirituality be raised againto where it ought to be in the light of theScriptures and eternal values. by A.W. TOZER
_________________Martin G. Smith
Amen!
_________________James
BUMP!~~
Fantastic.