Thought for the day

Have we come to a stage in this generation that the so-called church is promoting everything and anything that will add to its number? The bottom line, as they say, is success; and success has everything to do with numbers. Whatever brings the numbers in must be all right.

This is far from the church fathers who gave their lives to establish the church of Jesus Christ.

The problem, as I see it, is that we have lost the vision the fathers had of what we refer to as the New Testament church.—A.W. Tozer, Voice of a Prophet, page 17

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And I would go a step further and say we have lost the vision that Jesus, the apostles, and Paul had for what the church is...
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