Nov
21
2008
Is The Church In Danger?
In the comment section a couple days ago on this blog, David Nelson provided a remarkable quote from Charles Spurgeon regarding the way we try and “help God out” by spicing up the church with some up-to-the-minute cachet. This comes from a sermon delivered on November 26, 1868 entitled “Man Transient: God’s Word Eternal”:
Never think of the Church of God as if she were in danger. If you do, you will be like Uzza; you will put forth your hand to steady the ark, and provoke the Lord to anger against you. If it were in danger, I tell you, you could not deliver it. If Christ cannot take care of his Church without you, you cannot do it. Be still, and know that he is God. . . When you begin to say, “The Church is in danger! The Church is in danger!” what is that to thee? It stood before thou wert born; it will stand when thou hast become worm’s meat. Do thou thy duty. Keep in the path of obedience, and fear not. He who made the Church knew through what trials she would have to pass, and he made her so that she can endure the trials and become the richer for it. The enemy is but grass, the word of the Lord endureth for ever.