The kind of Christianity that relies upon the influence of its own human and earthly power makes God sick, for the church of Jesus Christ is a heavenly institution.

The church that wants God's power will have something to offer besides social clubs, knitting societies and all the other side issues.

If any church is to be a church of Christ, the living organic member of that redeemed body of which Christ is the Head, then its teachers and its members must strive earnestly and sacrificially with constant prayers to do a number of things.

We must strive to make our beliefs and practices New Testament in their content.  We must teach and believe New Testament truths, with nothing dragged in from outside.

We must keep true to the Word of God.  We must constantly go back to the grass roots and get the Word into the church.

We must live to gear ourselves into things eternal and to live the life of heaven here upon the earth, empowered by the Spirit of God with that same power that came on the earliest believers.  We must put loyalty to Christ first at any cost.  Anything less than that really is not a Christian church!

These remarks are by A. W. Tozer

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A CHECKOUT!!

I think it might be well for us to check our spiritual condition occasionally by the simple test of compatibility.   When we are free to go, where do we go?  In what company do we feel most at home?  Where do our thoughts turn when they are free to turn where they will?  When the pressure of work or business or school has temporarily lifted and we are able to think of what we will instead of what we must, what do we think of then?