“The old cross would have no truck with the world.”
Today I returned home from the Ligonier Conference in Orlando. One of the conference speakers said that if earlier bible-believing Christians could see today’s church they would be shocked at two things — our wealth and (my paraphrase) our comfort with the ways and allures of the world.
Mr. Tozer was spot-on, as usual.
Tozer’s stuff is timeless.
But that’s what happens when it’s based on the Word.
He really saw where the church was heading. The way he talks about it when he was around, shows that, and he was in the days that we could consider pretty conservative, pretty unaffected by the world, and yet it still applies today.
I think he would be shocked in a way at where the church has ended in that it probably has gone far further than he ever expected.
But in a way, he might not be as what we have today is the natural outgrowth of what he was seeing in his day.