A Message from Our Pastor
Here are some interesting words from A.W. Tozer to
meditate on, "Our most pressing obligation today is to
do all in our power to obtain a revival that will
result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. It
is of far greater importance that we have better
Christians than that we have more of them. Each
generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and
degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate
harvest not a little better than but a little worse
than the seed from which it sprang. Thus the direction
will be down until vigorous, effective means are taken
to improve the seed.... To carry on these activities
[evangelism, missions] scripturally the church should
be walking in fullness of power, separated, purified
and ready at any moment to give up everything, even
life itself, for the greater glory of Christ. For a
worldly, weak, decadent church to make converts is but
to bring forth after her own kind and extend her
weakness and decadence a bit further out.... So
vitally important is spiritual quality that it is
hardly too much to suggest that attempts to grow
larger might well be suspended until we have become
better. A better Christian will make a better father,
mother, son, daughter, grandfather, and grandmother. Lord, help us today to focus on You and our prayer is
that You would point out the things in our lives that
need to be changed in order that we would be better
Christians.
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