The contemporary moral climate does not favor a faith as tough and fibrous as that taught by our Lord and His apostles. The delicate, brittle saints being produced in our religious hothouses today are hardly to be compared with the committed, expendable believers who once gave their witness among men. And the fault lies with our leaders. They are too timid to tell the people all the truth. They are now asking men to give to God that which costs them nothing.
Our churches these days are filled (or one-quarter filled) with a soft breed of Christian that must be fed on a diet of harmless fun to keep them interested. About theology they know little. Scarcely any of them have read even one of the great Christian classics, but most of them are familiar with religious fiction and spinetingling films. No wonder their moral and spiritual constitution is so frail. Such can only be called weak adherents of a faith they never really understood. (That Incredible Christian, 76).
A.W. Tozer
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Soft
1 comment:
lol. okay, so i recently posted an entry which i entitled "soft". and this is before i read this blogpost of yours with the same title.
i think we were thinking of two completely different sides to the word. i just thought that was interesting.
in response to the actual quote, go Tozer. though i remember pscott saying one time that Tozer had a miserable marriage, so it detracts from the "Godly pedestal" that i may have placed him on before. still, it doesn't deny the reality that Tozer was a Godly man & sought after Him & was quite the scathing commentator of the Christian & the Church.
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