The word of God has been so thoroughly tamed that as peddled in the churches there is nothing ... It is easier to join a Christian church than it is to join Rotary.

The word of God has been so thoroughly tamed that as peddled in the churches there is nothing scandalous, strenuous, or revolutionary about it. It is not even difficult. It is easier to join a Christian church than it is to join Rotary. Whereas in some eras of its history, Christianity was threatened by persecution, in our own American culture, it faces an opposite threat which lies in its very success. Christianity is dying, not of persecution or neglect, but of respectability.

... W. Waldo Beach (1916-2000), The Christian Life, Richmond, Va.: CLC Press, 1966, p. 11 (see the book; see also Ps. 85:4; more at Church, Persecution, Success, Neglect, Culture)

Compilation Copyright, 1996-2009, by Robert McAnally Adams,
Curator, Christian Quotation of the Day.

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The word of God has been so thoroughly tamed that as peddled in the churches there is nothing ... It is easier to join a Christian church than it is to join Rotary.

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