A CHALLENGE from A.W. TOZER
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by A.W. Tozer
Some persons, for instance, find church intolerable because there
is no objective toward which pastor and people are moving, aside
possibly from the limited one of trying to enlist eight more women
and 10 more men to chaperon the annual youth cookout or reaching
the building fund quota for the month. And believe me, that can get
mighty wearisome after a while, so wearisome indeed that alert,
forward-looking persons often forsake the churches in droves and
leave the spiritless, the dull and those afflicted with permanent
insouciance to carry on, if a phrase so active dare be used to
describe what they do. To Paul there was nothing dull or tiresome
in the religion of Christ.
God had a plan which was being carried forward to completion,
and Paul and all the faithful in Christ Jesus were part of that plan.
It included predestination, redemption, adoption and the obtaining
of an eternal inheritance in the heavenly places. Gods purpose
has now been openly revealed (Ephesians 3:10,11). It was the
knowledge that they were part of an eternal plan that imparted
unquenchable enthusiasm to the early Christians. They burned
with holy zeal for Christ and felt that they were part of an army
which the Lord was leading to ultimate conquest over all the
powers of darkness. That was enough to fill them with perpetual
enthusiasm.
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