The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
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