The Gospel Without Compromise
The excerpt below is a chapter from the book by Catherine de Hueck Doherty.
The Trouble With Christians
There is no denying that I am a modern traveller. One time when I was out visiting our other houses, I travelled around the world twice according to air miles. Everywhere I went - hotels, restaurants,pubs, cocktail lounges, humble native huts, rich Italian palaces,American and European suburban homes - everywhere my impression
was that there is one main topic of conversation in our day and age.
That topic is GOD.
Be He dead or alive, He preoccupies men's minds with His strange and eternal fascination. Do people deny Him? They cannot do it calmly. Do they accept Him? They accept Him often with great passion. But alas, in most instances, those who say they believe in Him are somewhat lukewarm and far from passionate in their argu-mentation, as if they were not quite sure of themselves. There is no dynamism, no pentecostal fire burning in them.
Yes, my deepest impression from my travels was that man's hunger for God is at its peak, but that Christians do not know how to fill this hunger. Maybe it's because they do not recognize this hunger for what it is, and thus do not realize how to fill it....
My impressions were that few Christians were in love with God, and fewer yet realized that He was in love with them. So the voice of those who say that "God is dead" is louder than the voice of
those who say that He is alive.
We should stop talking about God and start living out the Gospel in our lives, manifesting the image of the Lord so clearly in our hearts that no one can possibly say that He is dead. We should stop worrying about theological theory and begin building among our-selves communities of love.....
We stand on a very narrow edge today. Which way are we going to move? Along the edge of faith, hope and love? This is the path God gives us when we listen. On either side is an abyss. Which
are we going to choose? It's up to us. This is the hour of choosing. May it be the hour of standing still, the hour of listening, the hour of prayer.
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