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Saturday, March 23, 2013

A Weaker Evangelicalism

A prophetic word:

When [William] Booth [1829–1912] was asked by an American newspaper what he regarded as the chief dangers ahead for the twentieth century, he replied tersely: “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.” Such a decline in the biblical message has indeed taken place and a weaker evangelicalism has been unable to stem the tide.

—Iain Murray, The Old Evangelicalism (Banner of Truth, 2005), xi.

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