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The Truth is compromised

In Christianity, Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Globalism, Philosophy & Religion, Political/Christian, Religion, Spiritual Formation, Theology on Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 9:15 pm

“For I think you will agree that the prevailing tendency is not to talk about and write about the truth itself. The whole emphasis at the moment is that we should all be getting together and forming great organizations. The concern is not so much as to the truth of the message, but to gather ourselves together into one great community. The tendency today is to minimize truth in favor of organization, and men are telling us with unwearied iteration that the greatest tragedy of the world is the disunited church. But the tragedy, the greatest tragedy as I understand the New Testament, is not the disunity of the church, is not the fact that the church is divided into groups and denominations, is not that we are not all in one organization, but that all the sections are preaching a false message and that there has been a departure from the truth of God as it is in Jesus Christ.”

–Martin Lloyd-Jones

  1. WOW!! Who is this?
    I’m going to google him now.
    Very powerful, and very spot-on….I’ve been thinking this, and now it has been expressed.
    Talk about hitting the nail on the head!

  2. Wow, that’s pretty much it.

  3. http://nord.twu.net/acl/dialectic.html

    Not sure about the link above it talks about a communitarian law based on the Hegelian Dialectic.

    I have just put it here mainly for my reference.

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