Sing4Him
May 19th, 2008, 01:16 PM
Hug No Traitor To Thy Bosom
Thanks to Contending for the Truth for sending in this quote. To those who call for greater charity towards those who mislead others by denying the basics of Bible doctrine, I submit these words to you written by a pastor who stood for truth in his own era. We have our own “downgrade today”, as Spurgeon did, and the wailing chorus of compromised evangelicals can be heard once again: “Dialogue, find common ground, achieve unity at all costs!”
“They believe in Christ, but it is a Christ without his crown, his atonement, his judgment-seat, or even his Godhead. They mock us with orthodox phrases, from which the essential truth is gone. They pretend that they believe in the atonement, and when we listen to their atonement we find that it does not effectually atone for anyone. It is a mere fiction, and not a fact. It saves nobody, but is a mere sham.
They have eviscerated the gospel, and then they hold up the empty carcass, and claim that they are Christians still. Christians who have murdered Christianity! Believers who doubt whether there is anything to be believed! Yet we are entreated in our charity to hug such traitors to our bosom. We shall do nothing of the kind. We would sooner believe in infidels outright than in those who pretend to be Christians and are infidels at heart.”
–C.H. Spurgeon, Sunday evening sermon, “Recruits for King Jesus”, February 17, 1886
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=786
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Thanks to Contending for the Truth for sending in this quote. To those who call for greater charity towards those who mislead others by denying the basics of Bible doctrine, I submit these words to you written by a pastor who stood for truth in his own era. We have our own “downgrade today”, as Spurgeon did, and the wailing chorus of compromised evangelicals can be heard once again: “Dialogue, find common ground, achieve unity at all costs!”
“They believe in Christ, but it is a Christ without his crown, his atonement, his judgment-seat, or even his Godhead. They mock us with orthodox phrases, from which the essential truth is gone. They pretend that they believe in the atonement, and when we listen to their atonement we find that it does not effectually atone for anyone. It is a mere fiction, and not a fact. It saves nobody, but is a mere sham.
They have eviscerated the gospel, and then they hold up the empty carcass, and claim that they are Christians still. Christians who have murdered Christianity! Believers who doubt whether there is anything to be believed! Yet we are entreated in our charity to hug such traitors to our bosom. We shall do nothing of the kind. We would sooner believe in infidels outright than in those who pretend to be Christians and are infidels at heart.”
–C.H. Spurgeon, Sunday evening sermon, “Recruits for King Jesus”, February 17, 1886
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=786
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