DISCIPLINE IS DISMISSED
By A. W. Tozer
Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they
straightway left their nets, and followed him
Matthew 4:19-20
We live in a land noted and favored for its freedom; a
country where Protestant Christianity is popular and well
accepted.
I noted this to speak of one of the great spiritual
dangers inherent in Protestantism, the fact that there is
no discipline involved. Anyone in our churches is pretty
much free to do anything he wants to do. If he does not
like one church he has only to cross the street and go to
another. If he does not like the preacher, he can leave and
soon be attending a church where he is quite pleased with
the preacher and with the music and with the
atmosphere.
You see, he is demanding Christianity without
discipline. He is refusing to acknowledge that the
Christian faith makes its own demands of obedience to
God and humility of spirit.
When his personal desires take the upper hand, the
voice of the Spirit of God is stifled and silenced. There
can be only one result -- the human soul will become
starved and deformed!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.