Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Schaeffer: being right without crushing people

...if we as individual Christians, and as the church, act on less than a personal relationship to other men, where is the demonstration that God our Creator is personal?

...As Christians we are not to fellowship with false doctrine.  But in the midst of the very battle against false teaching, we must not forget the proper personal relationship.

In the midst of being right, if self is exalted, my fellowship with God can be destroyed...

...how careful I must be, every time I see a situation where I am right  and another man is wrong, not to use it as an excuse to scramble into a superior position over that man, rather than remembering the proper relationship of fellow creatures before God.

TS, p135-136

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