THE GOSPEL - DILUTE TO TASTE?

This snippet from A W Tozer just came in today from our International Prayer Co-ordinator, and I thought it was worth sharing. There is unfathomable power in the Word of God, but not so much in our thoughts on it. Last night in church one of my colleagues in YFC read two passages from Isaiah, from Chapters 61 and 58, and the words were like the voice of God speaking directly to our hearts.

From the works of A.W. Tozer
I Talk Back to the Devil, pgs. 30-31.

Preaching: Nibbling at the Truth

This is one of the marks of our modern time--that many are guilty of merely "nibbling" at the truth of the Christian gospel.

I wonder if you realize that in many ways the preaching of the Word of God is being pulled down to the level of the ignorant and spiritually obtuse; that we must tell stories and jokes and entertain and amuse in order to have a few people in the audience? We do these things that we may have some reputation and that there may be money in the treasury to meet the church bills . . .

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!