Humanism is the most deadly and disastrous of all the philosophical stenches that has crept up through the grating over the pit of Hell. It is in total contrast with Christianity. Unfortunately, it is seldom seen.
Micah wants to have a little chapel. He wants to have a priest. He wants to have devotions because, “I know that He will do me good.”
God does not live to make man happy.Happiness is a by-product, not the goal.
Finally had the time to sit and listen to this. Amazing.... and rather a different perspective than one hears in the church world. The "come to Jesus and get _______" stuff is precisely what he says it is: humanism. Man centred.
I found, during the last two or three minutes of this, I was thinking of John Piper's amazing book Let the Nations be Glad...... his definition of missions is very close to this brother's: missions exist wherever worship of God does not. Worship of the living God IS at the centre of it all.... else man is. No other option exists. From the quality of the recording, this sounds like it was made back in the 1950's or so. If this is the case, he is remarkably astute, and very much counter to his own time. This message is even more so now, after a half-century of "perfecting" the classic evangelical "missions" ministries. Thanks for the call to "refocus".
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Finally had the time to sit and listen to this. Amazing.... and rather a different perspective than one hears in the church world. The "come to Jesus and get _______" stuff is precisely what he says it is: humanism. Man centred.
I found, during the last two or three minutes of this, I was thinking of John Piper's amazing book Let the Nations be Glad...... his definition of missions is very close to this brother's: missions exist wherever worship of God does not. Worship of the living God IS at the centre of it all.... else man is. No other option exists.
From the quality of the recording, this sounds like it was made back in the 1950's or so. If this is the case, he is remarkably astute, and very much counter to his own time. This message is even more so now, after a half-century of "perfecting" the classic evangelical "missions" ministries.
Thanks for the call to "refocus".
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