Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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Vance Havner
Don’t Take It Easy – Vance Havner
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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Satan is Joining Churches – Vance Havner
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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The First Step Towards Evangelizing the World – Vance Havner
The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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Suffering From a Lack of Belief and Receiving – Vance Havner
We’re suffering from a believism that never has believed and a receivism that never has received and it leads to deceivism.
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The Last Thing Jesus Said to the Church – Vance Havner
The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was “Repent.” He said that to five out of seven.
– Vance Havner –
(see Revelation 2-3)
Believism, Receivism, Deceivism – Vance Havner
We’re suffering from a believism that never has believed and a receivism that never has received and it leads to deceivism.
– Vance Havner –
God Uses Broken Things – Vance Havner
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume …
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Shake Before Using – Vance Havner
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, “Shake well before using.” That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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