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This profile of the Ephesian church serves as an example for our learning.
Some preachers talk about the dispensations of the Bible. Then they condemn dispensationalism. What’s the difference?
Perhaps the answer to a decline in Christianity is to restore the church as found in the New Testament.
When Harold Kushner wrote a book for children with religious questions, he de-personalized the “Messiah” of the Old Testament. Without any justification whatever, he simply re-wrote history. Such is the epitome of arrogance.
A consideration of the biblical data leads only to the conclusion that the heart is a vulnerable feature of the human makeup. One must guard it, and he must cultivate it, with the greatest of diligence.
Should we be trying to restore the New Testament pattern of Christianity? Or should we abandon the original ideal and modernize the church to keep up with the times?