Tuesday, December 05, 2006

New from Another Old Book

Just got my used copy of "Christianity and Liberalism" by J. Gresham Machen (1923) in the mail today. This is a man who drew a line in the sand with his generation's version of Emergent doctrinal ambiquity and outright abandonment of the Gospel in the mainline churches. Have to work so can't read 'til later, but cheated and read the last paragraph first:

"Is there no refuge from strife? Is there no place of refreshing where a man can prepare for the battle of life? Is there no place where two or three can gather in Jesus' name, to forget for the moment all those things that divide nation from nation and race from race, to forget human pride, to forget the passions of war, to forget the puzzling problems of industrial strife, and to unite in overflowing gratitude at the foot of the Cross? If there be such a place, then that is the house of God and that the gate of heaven. And from under the threshold of that house will go forth a river that will revive the weary world."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I now know why you haven't had any posts on the de-blog. you've been thinking and writing here, what we should be reading over there.
thank you.