At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness — and the Church sleeps in the light.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The World and Church is Asleep – Leonard Ravenhill
The Cancer in the Church – Leonard Ravenhill
The best title of the professing church of God today, in my judgment, is “Unbelieving Believers.” There’s cancer in the church …
– Leonard Ravenhill –
A Self-Centered Church Can’t Evangelize the World – John R. Mott
The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ’s Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.
– John R. Mott –
Too Many Christians Are At Home in the World – AW Tozer
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful adjustment to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.
– AW Tozer –
Normal Temperature or a Fever? – Watchman Nee
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
– Watchman Nee –
In Every Generation – AW Tozer
In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
– AW Tozer –
Born of the Spirit and Washed in the Blood – AW Tozer
I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood. A great deal that passes for the deeper life is nothing more or less than basic Christianity.
– AW Tozer –
The Invasion of the Church by the World – John R. Mott
The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ’s Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.
– John R. Mott –
We’ve Lost the Stamina of Prayer – Paul E. Billheimer
The Western church has lost the prayer stamina of the mission churches in Asia, Africa, South America, Indonesia, and those of the underground church in many parts of the world. Yes, we are great organizers, but poor pray-ers.
– Paul E. Billheimer –