"...we who formerly delighted in
fornication, but now embrace chastity alone; we who formerly used magical
arts, dedicated ourselves to the good and unbegotten God, who valued above
all things the acquisition of wealth and possessions, now bring what we
have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated
and destroyed one another, and on account of their different tribe, now
since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our
enemies, and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly, to the end
that they may become partakers of the same joyful hope of a reward from
God the ruler of all." (Justin Martyr---2nd Century) "Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation, regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. Just as what we may call holiness without love is not God's kind of holiness, so also what we may call love without holiness, is not God's kind of love...A false spirit of accommodation is sweeping the world as well as the Church, including those who claim the label of evangelical." ---(Francis Schaeffer in The Great Evangelical Disaster) |