„One church split and eventually died when the old pulpit was replaced with a new one. The church actually had a business meeting and a major battle to vote on the new pulpit. Members who had not been in church for years showed up for the vote. Indeed the s0-called inactive members often became active for a contested business meeting in the dying churches…”
„The new pulpit group defeated the old pulpit group in close vote. The old pulpit group took the pulpit and started a new church…”
„Jesus words apply to all of us. We are to be good stewards of personal finances and possessions…But if we focus on things , no matter how meaningful they are, so that we become distracted from the eternal, we have lost our focus. And a church that has lost her eternal focus is one step closer to dying and death.”
Atât legalismul cât și liberalismul, au fost chiar de la bun început folosite de diavol. Dacă ne gândim bine la discuția pe care diavolul a purtat-o cu Eva în Grădina Edenului, ne putem da seama cum diavolul a semănat îndoială în inima Evei în ceea ce privește ascultarea ei de Dumnezeu.
