SOUTH HEIGHTS BAPTIST’S WEEKLY NURSERY MINISTRY WORKERS FOR THIS WEEK WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SAVED 10:50 a.m. Service ------Cradle Roll 1: Shirley White 1. Admit that you are a sinner. Cradle Roll 2: Volunteer Needed! Sun. Eve. Service ------Cradle Roll 1: Piper Quinnelly 2. Admit that God says all sins must be Cradle Roll 2: Ryan Quinnelly paid for. Wed. Eve. Service ------Cradle Roll 1: Volunteer Needed! 3. Accept the fact that Christ took upon Cradle Roll 2: Volunteer Needed! Himself the suffering necessary to pay for all your sins. Volume XX December 6, 2015 Number 44 4. You must change your mind about sin and AND THE PEOPLE CAME... sinning (God calls this repentance). Week of November 29, 2015 5. By an act of your will, accept by faith Sunday School ------18 Missing Notes In The Modern Church Sunday Morning Service ------22 the Lord Jesus Christ, who can save you from by Vance Havner the penalty of sin. Then, tell God about this in a Sunday Evening Service ------12 t is very fashionable nowadays to ask, “What is wrong with the Church?” It is no new simple prayer. Believe that God keeps His Wed. Eve. Service, 12/02/15 ------32 subject. There has always been something or other wrong with the professing church, and promise to save you, and thank Him for His Ithere have always been speakers aplenty to discuss it. Unfortunately, their speaking usually salvation. relieves only the speaker and not the situation. One is reminded of the soap-box orator in London AND THE PEOPLE GAVE... some years ago. He was lambasting the government with a vengeance. Somebody asked a policeman: Week of November 29, 2015 “Why don't you do something with him?” “Oh, leave 'im alone,” the bobby replied, “It relieves 'im Undesignated Tithes & Offerings ------$ 2,853.00 and it don't 'urt us.” Total Received for Week of 11/29/15: $ 2, 853.00 Please Remember To I venture to suggest three characteristics of the New Testament Church that are out of style today. There are other marks of the Early Church that are also out of style, but one cannot cover everything Average amount of Undesignated Offerings needed Be Faithful to Give! in one message. I think that if we seriously considered these lost characteristics and recovered them to operate the church EACH WEEK, we would be a long way toward answering the question, “What is wrong with the Church?” As with everything else, the costs of keeping a church as a minimum = $ 1,400.00 The New Testament Church was an intolerant church. At once we throw ourselves open to a broadside of protest. “Intolerant” going never go down - they always go up. Bills wait for no is a scandalous word to use these days, for if there is anything that is in style among our “progressive” churches it is that word one, and churches are no exception to this. An extra, “tolerance.” You would think that intolerance was the unpardonable sin. We are majoring as never in all church history on being sacrificial gift today by everyone present would go a long broad-minded. That we have become so broad we have become also pitifully shallow never seems to disturb us. We must “broaden way... LISTEN TO - or bust.” Of course, some experts in tolerance can be amazingly intolerant of those who do not share their broad-mindedness, but We encourage all of our membership to practice that does not disturb them either. obedience to God by being faithful every payday to give back to Him His tithe (10%). If every family in our church There is, of course, a false, pharasaic intolerance that has no place in a true church. And one encounters it again and again among would practice this one simple discipline, we would never conservative Christians. It has brought about the remark that the modernists are arid and the fundamentalists are acrid, that the former have weeks where we have to put off paying some bills until lack clarity and the latter charity. It has nicknamed the fundamentalists “feudamentalists” and gotten them a reputation for spending the following week! so much time sniping at each other that they have little time left to go after the devil. Everything is expensive, especially for a small church But there is a proper intolerance, and the New Testament Church had it. They were intolerant of any way of salvation except like ours, but ours is a BIG God, and He LOVES to bless Jesus Christ. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must His children when they are obedient to Him! be saved” (Acts 4:12). That makes it straight and narrow, and it isn't what you are hearing in some localities these days. You are If you are already a tither, we thank you, and encourage hearing that Jesus is the best way but that other ways are good and will lead to God just the same. Union meetings of Catholics, you to also give offerings as well. If you’re currently not Protestants, and Jews create the impression that a general faith in God is enough without specific faith in Christ. Now, that cannot tithing, won’t you please start today - OK? Thank you. be true if no man comes to the Father but by Christ. The devils believe that there is one God and tremble: men believe it and do not even tremble, but expect to reach heaven by theism instead of by Calvary. The New Testament Church was also intolerant of anything that threatened to compromise this Gospel of No Other Name. In Galatia men tried to mix in a little legalism, and in Colosse they were slipping in a bit of false mysticism — and Paul would have none of ABIDINGRADIO.COM Church Directory it. He could have said nothing about it. I am sure that some of the false teachers must have accused him of seeing bugaboos and Todd W. White ------Pastor hobgoblins. He could have told Timothy to play ball with the apostates of his day, but, instead, he wrote, “From such turn away.” Mickie Shatwell ------Pianist He advised Titus to reject a heretic after the first and second admonition, which sounds uncomfortably intolerant. And even the gentle AUDITORIUM AIR CONDITIONER FUND - Lois Mae Floyd ------Pianist/ Organist John forbad hospitality to those who abode not in the doctrine of Christ, asserting that “he that bids him God speed is partaker of ------Greeter Amount For Entire Project ------$5,000.00 Shayne Hooper, Brian Crawford, Charity Crawford ------S.S. Teachers his evil deeds.” To be sure, we are not advised to bawl him out and throw stones after him until he is out of sight: but neither is there Amount Received So Far ------$ 85.00 Larry & Mary Byars, ------Outreach any encouragement for that fashionable modern fellowship with unbelievers. Total STILL NEEDED to pay off: $4,915.00 Bertha Segebarrt ------Custodian Flowers ------Shirley White, Charity Crawford The New Testament Church was intolerant of sin in its midst. When serious trouble first showed up in Ananias and Sapphira it was (continued inside) dealt with in sudden and certain terms. When immorality cropped In the second place, the New Testament Church was not only House of Prayer, Floyd will join hands with one of the world’s Stanley built the bridges to the emerging church on which the out in Corinth Paul delivered the offender to the devil for the intolerant, narrow, exclusive. IT WAS A REPELLENT most radical Onething 2015 groups of charismatic mystics, as second generation is treading, particularly by his broad-tent SBC destruction of his flesh. It was in line with our Lord's teaching on CHURCH . Instead of attracting everybody, it repelled. In the well as with Roman Catholic praise musician Matt Maher. The philosophy and acceptance of contemporary worship music. discipline in the eighteenth chapter of Matthew. To be sure, it was fourth chapter of Acts the church was really going places for International House of Prayer is most assuredly one in the spirit K 40% OF MILLENNIALS ARE OPPOSED TO FREE to be done in love and tenderness, and the brother overtaken in a God. It was a great hour but dangerous. Could the church stand with Matt and his love for the mass and prayers to Mary. IHOP SPEECH IF IT IS OFFENSIVE - The following is excerpted fault was to be restored by the spiritual ones, and Paul was quick success? There is a turn in the story with the fifth chapter. It is passionate about “Jesus,” but it is a false christ and a deceiving from “Study: 40%,” Charlie Nash, Breitbart, Nov. 23, 2015: to recommend the restoration of the Corinthian brother. But, still, begins “But . . .” Ananias and Sapphira appear, trouble has arisen spirit masquerading as the Spirit of God. “A new study conducted by Pew Research came out on Friday, sin was not to be glossed over and excused as we condone it in the midst. There were plenty of liars in Jerusalem but these And this frightful reality is created by the soul-blinding power revealing the depressingly sorry state of today’s youth and the today in our churches until liars, gamblers, drunkards, and were in the church! But by the grace of God the church rose to of contemporary worship. Even the most conservative elements respect that they have for the 1st Amendment and freedom of divorcees fill prominent places in Sunday schools and on boards the occasion and cleaned house. Ananias and Sapphira were of the Southern Baptist Convention have long been drunk on this speech in general. When asked whether the government should and have never as much as heard that we must be clean who bear carried out dead and the church rolled on. We read, “And great music, unwittingly drinking of a deceiving spirit, an ecumenical intervene if citizens say something that might be considered the vessels of the Lord. We have let the camel get his foot in the fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard spirit, a non-judgmental spirit, unwittingly building a bridge to offensive to minorities, 40% of millennials agreed. This is, of door and then his head, until now the whole camel is inside and these things. And by the hands of the apostles were many signs the one-world church, so that today there is no ability to resist it. course, still a minority of respondents, but when compared to along with him other animals far more unsavory. Peter added and wonders wrought among the people; and they were all with Even the most conservative Southern Baptist leaders, from Al those of the previous generations (even just the last), it is still an even hogs and dogs to our spiritual zoology, and the lambs today one accord on Solomon's porch.” Here is the church in the full Mohler to Charles Stanley, by their silence, support the bridge incredibly significant figure. are so mixed with every other species that what was once a bloom of her power: a Spirit-filled church, a wonder-working building done through contemporary music. Only 27% of Gen Xers, 24% of Baby Boomers, and 12% of sheepfold has become a zoo. Our Lord warned us that the (not a wondering!) church; a church that stirred up the devil. Matt Maher, who will join the SBC president at the IHOP Silent Generation respondents agreed that the state should control shepherd who did not stand his ground when the wolves appeared Then we read that there were three reactions: conference, leads the “Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament” at and limit potentially offensive speech, so the comparative was only a hireling. We are bidden to feed His sheep but not to Even though people admired them a lot, outsiders were wary Catholic Churches, such as Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tempe increase among the youth of disregard for the First Amendment feed wolves. I grant you that it is often a complicated problem about joining them. On the other hand, those who put their trust which is devoted to Mary, “the Mother of Life.” The “Adoration should be a major cause for concern. and can be handled only on one's knees. But we are paying an in the Master were added right and left, men and women both. of the Blessed Sacrament” refers to the worship of the awful price today for our sweet tolerance of sin within the This is simply the result of what most journalists on the right People didn't join this church carelessly. They were afraid to! consecrated host of the mass. Because of the supposed power of Church. If the church of the Acts had overlooked iniquity and have been saying for years. Freedom of speech is under attack, There was a holy awe that kept Tom, Dick, and Harry at a the Catholic mass to transform bread into the very body and by-passed evil and smilingly looked the other way while the devil not by direct legislation, but by erasing the value of freedom of distance. People didn't rush into this fellowship just because it blood of Jesus, the host is “adored” as Christ Himself. sneaked into every phase of her life as we have done today, expression in schools and colleges. was the nice thing to do. It meant something to unite with this Christianity would have died in infancy. This is the type of apostasy with which every lover of Just 10 to 20 years ago, college campuses were places defined crowd. There was a holy repulsion, and I know of nothing that contemporary worship music joins hands. The New Testament Church had a healthy, holy intolerance. It by their open debates, easy access to learn new things, and free the church needs more today. It is the last thing we think we need. “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause got somewhere because it started out on a narrow road and stuck student discussion. College campuses are now defined by ‘safe We are always trying to attract. Our programs, prizes, picnics, divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have to it. It might easily have taken up a dozen wide boulevards and spaces,’ authoritarian student unions, and bourgeoisie and pulpit pyrotechnics are aimed at drawing the people in. Here learned; and avoid them” (Romans 16:17). middle-class-but-I’m-down-with-the-poor protesters. Students of ended in destruction. We face the peril of the wide gate and the was a church that made people stand back! We have catered to K TWO GENERATIONS OF BAPTIST PASTORS: THE today do not want a free discussion if anything said could hurt broad way today, and it tantalizes us all the more because “many the world, we have let the world slap the church on the back in CONSERVATIVE AND THE “EMERGING” - Charles Stanley someone’s feelings (unless you’re straight, male, and white; then enter through it.” We were told a long time ago that “few there coarse familiarity. Here was a church that prospered by repelling! be” who take the S. and N., the Straight and Narrow. We and his son, Andy, represent two generations of Baptist pastors, fire away). ... You will observe that all this followed on the heels of the death Americans especially are gregarious; we like to run with the one conservative and one emerging. Charles, 82, is the long-time Despite the worrying increase in those against free speech, the of Ananias and Sapphira. If the church took a stand today on sins crowd. We had rather be called almost anything on earth than pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, while Andy, 56, is the United States of America turned out to be the most within; if we thundered out, as Peter did here, against lying to the narrow; yet our Lord chose the adjective, and faithfulness to Him cool pastor of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, an freedom-loving country on its own, with only 28% in favor of Holy Spirit, it would make the world stand at a respectful will prove that it still fits today. Atlanta suburb. government regulation on speech, while Germany had a troubling distance, and the fear of God would fall on a generation that One of their fundamental differences is their view of 70% in favor, the most out of the all countries in the study. The I am sure that there were those who called the Early Church laughs at the church. What was the sin of Ananias and Sapphira? homosexuality. Charles believes that homosexuality is a sin and United Kingdom was the most freedom-loving country in Europe, “exclusive,” and predicted that it would never get anywhere until They pretended to make a full consecration which was not real. that homosexual marriage is absolutely wrong, based on the with 54% favoring free speech.” it became inclusive. “Exclusive” is another word that is anathema And are not our churches filled with men and women who sing, Bible, while Andy holds a broader, more “tolerant” view based today and has been shoved into the limbo of the outmoded, along “I surrender all,” when they have not surrendered anything? on a “consensus.” In the book The New Rules for Love, Sex and with “intolerant” and “narrow.” But the New Testament Church The church is cluttered with people who should never have Dating, Andy says, “My purpose in writing this book was not to was the most exclusive fellowship on earth. It was not just a joined. She already has too many of the kind she has. We need a push a religious or even my Christian agenda.” society of people with good intentions. It was not a club for holy repulsion. You don't have to be different to be a improving the old Adam. It was a fellowship of people who church-member now. There is little about the average church to So much for God’s command to “preach the Word” (II Timothy believed in Jesus Christ as the one and only Saviour. It seemed make men stand back in reverence. In other days we at least had 4:2)! not to have a chance in the face of the great Roman world. It church discipline. I can recall the old Saturday church meetings, At an event in April promoting his “change maker’s” could easily have let down the bars and taken in all sorts of when Ananias and Sapphira were dealt with. Some mistakes were organization called Catalyst, Andy said, “We need to decide, religiously minded folk, but it stuck to “Jesus Only.” A river may made but there was a healthy regard for the sanctity of the church. regardless of what you think about this topic [homosexuality] , no look very lovely spread out all over a marsh, but to generate When the church takes a stand, it repels careless “joiners.” more students are going to feel like they have to leave the local power it must narrow itself. We have endeavored to spread out church because they’re same-sex attracted or because they’re But someone asks, “What would people think if we took such a the river today. We have sacrificed depth for width and instead of gay. That ends with us” stand?” Let us see what happened here: “But the people (“Dr. Charles Stanley and Son Andy,” a power dam we have a stagnant swamp. magnified them.” The church had favor with all the people (Acts The Gospel Herald, Apr. 23, 2015). “Conservative” Charles 2:47). The church that stands in the power of the Spirit wins the any other character in all time. Once, when He had preached a that it would be a sensation indeed. in a risen, coming Christ. The infilling of the Spirit, our duty and respect of the people. We have driven them away in trying to crowd away, He asked the disciples: “Will you also go away?” We glory these days in our churches being precise. Every “i” is privilege, as we yield all, receive, trust, and obey. The daily attract them. We have lost favor in trying to win favor. The world All through His ministry men were being drawn and repelled. The dotted, every “t” is crossed. We are Disciples of the Great Happy practice of Galatians 2:20, living by the faith of the Son of God. is sick and disgusted with the church making a clown of itself, young ruler was first drawn; then when the terms of discipleship Medium. Now, because there are extremes, our Lord would not Every Christian a missionary. Let a few in any church start living trying to talk the slang of this age, running third-rate amusement were made known, he was repelled. have us be middle-of-the-roaders. He said He would spew us out that, and the impact will shake the community. For that is the way parlors, playing bingo and putting on rummage sales. The church, God help us, as Christians and churches, to recover the power of of His mouth, not for being too hot, but for being lukewarm. He it started. ÷ it has been said, is not running a show-boat but a life-boat, and God among us until a holy awe shall rest upon us. God help us to would rather have us on the wrong side of the fence than on the NEWS OF INTEREST TO CHRISTIANS we make ourselves ridiculous in trying to compete with the deal with sin until men shall be afraid to lie to the Holy Spirit. fence. Yet today the churches are on the fence. We do not commit K SBC PRESIDENT TO SPEAK AT RADICAL world. The preacher and church that stand for God and When we do, outsiders will not dare to join us; the people will ourselves boldly to anything. We are so cautious that half of what CHARISMATIC CONFERENCE - Ronnie Floyd, President of righteousness will be magnified. magnify us; believers will be added to the Lord. we say cancels the other half and we end up by having said the Southern Baptist Convention, is scheduled to speak in When judgment fell on Ananias and Sapphira the world sat up nothing. We are salt without savor, there is no tang, no flavor, no There is a third characteristic of the New Testament that is quite December at International House of Prayer’s OneThing 2015. and took notice. Today we coddle and excuse our sins, call IT WAS A SENSATIONAL CHURCH. relish about us, nothing to smack the lips over. Our services are out of style: There was This demonstrates how deeply the SBC has drunk of the false weakness what God calls wickedness. We shelter sin in the dry and flat and tasteless, and when we try to pep them up with something happening every minute. On the day of Pentecost the charismatic spirit and how spiritually dangerous this Church, and when a preacher would cry out against it he is a little glorified “spizzerenctum” the result is embarrassing. We multitude gathered “amazed, confounded and perplexed.” And denomination is. It is a fearful hodgepodge of truth and error. advised, “Don't be too hard, nobody is perfect,” and is given a from that day on, Jerusalem was kept in a turmoil on account of need a New Testament sensationalism — not an emotional IHOP was founded in 1999 by Mike Bickle, joined by Bob dressing-down from the text, “Judge not that you be not judged.” this new power let loose in the world which jails could not lock spree but the earth-shaking stir of a movement of the Holy Jones (not the Bob Jones of BJU), John Paul Jackson, Paul Cain, We have let down the bars until anybody can get into a church up nor swords kill nor death destroy. And wherever they went, Spirit. To have that, we need only to be New Testament David Parker, and Francis Frangipane and other so-called and nobody ever gets out. If we raised the New Testament these Christians stirred up the elements. Paul exceedingly Christians, then things will begin to happen. The most sensational prophets of a latter-day miracle revival movement. Bickle’s standard it would stop the rush of superficial disciples and win troubled Philippi and created no small stir in Ephesus and won thing I can imagine would be an outbreak of New Testament emphasis is a Latter Rain signs and wonders ministry in respect where now there is ridicule. the name of a world upsetter. That a mere handful of plain Christianity. It would create a sensation among the churches, for preparation for Christ’s return. “But nobody would ever join!” do we hear? Let us see what witnesses, talking about One who was supposed to be dead and it would be a revival, an awaking out of sleep. Some churches happened here: “And believers were the more added to the Lord, buried, should tackle the great Roman world in a head-on have slept so long that the awakening would be as remarkable as IHOP hosts 24/7 prayer meetings which are mystical multitudes both of men and women.” While outsiders dared not collision and come off winners is the most sensational thing in Rip Van Winkle's. It would certainly create a sensation in this contemporary worship “encounters” powered by rock music. join, the Lord added more and more to Himself. The church that history. world, for the world has become so accustomed to our being They are weird charismatic free-for-alls. IHOP’s 24/7 prayer sessions have been described as “euphoric worship ... mesmeric, repels as this church repelled will attract as this church attracted. Today we Christians are living, for the most part, on the comfortably hidden away in brick buildings on street corners that musical worship, repeating the same phrases over and over.” I can It will be the attraction of the Holy Spirit, and He will draw out momentum with which the New Testament Church started and on if a revival drove us out as at Pentecost to declare in the confirm this from my visit in October 2014 to an IHOP those who really believe. All that is necessary is just to be New fresh waves of momentum started since through others who were marketplaces the wonderful works of God, the general public conference. Testament Christians and a New Testament Church, and we will sensational in their day. Savonarola and Luther and Knox and would gather amazed, confounded, perplexed. both repel and attract. It is a law of nature. The rose has its thorns, Wesley and Whitefield and Moody let nobody go to sleep in their I am not advocating mere noise and uproar, but the Acts of the IHOP’s 24/7 “prayer” is not about thoughtful, biblical prayer or it both repels and attracts. Everywhere you look in the world of vicinity. But of late anything out of the ordinary, anything likely Apostles is an exciting book. And most of the denominations that quiet, thoughtful meditation on Scripture. It is about charismatic nature, you observe this double law at work. It is a law of the to disturb the saints at ease in Zion, is frowned upon by a stiff and now repose in such quiet dignity had a rather stirring start. The mysticism whereby God is allegedly “encountered” in and spiritual world too. starched formalism “faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly Baptists have subsided until one would hardly think that they beyond Scripture. It is about “experiencing” God. It is about What is this repulsion? There is a false repulsion. Often we drive null” (Tennyson). In reaction to that there has sprung up in the were once considered heretical nuisances, so greatly did they bringing in the kingdom of God through signs and wonders. This people away by our indifference, criticism, lack of love and zeal. churches today an extreme sensationalism as bad as the thing it disturb the peace. Surely the Methodists have a name for setting is why IHOP is attracted to Roman Catholic contemplative We ought to be ashamed of it, confess that we are ugly and tries to correct. Wild free-lances, weird prophetic firebrands, the woods on fire in days gone by. And even the Presbyterians, prayer, as evidenced by the fact that their bookstore features unattractive Christians, repent of our bigotry, coldness and erratic evangelists would try to remedy freezing in formalism by long synonymous with dignity, were once agitators second to dozens of contemplative titles. Contemplative prayer has the same hardness, and let the Lord make us winsome with the loveliness frying in emotionalism. So the battle rages, and the saints are so none. Some of our denominationalists who fear that a holy stir in mystical objective as IHOP’s 24/7 prayer: an experience with of Christ. busy calling each other names that Satan gets scant attention. the house of God would be out of keeping with their tradition God and direct revelation from God beyond Scripture. But when you go beyond Scripture, you go beyond the God of Scripture, But there is a repulsion that goes with being a Christian. Here But the counterfeit proves the genuine and the fact of a spurious need to learn that it would be entirely in keeping — they would and you open yourself to angels of darkness masquerading as is a fine Christian girl, beautiful and charming in face, in mind, sensationalism should not blind us to the truth. Someone has said merely be returning to what they started with! If any of our angels of light! in spirit. When she comes into a gathering she is attractive. But that sensational preaching is the kind some preachers don't like modern denominations had started with no more zeal than they there is something about her which makes it out of the question because they can't do it. Be that as it may, we have dried up being now have, they wouldn't be living today to tell the tale! This is why charismatic worship and contemplative prayer lead to use profanity in her presence, something which makes the “resolutionary,” we need to become revolutionary. There is no Intolerant, unpopular, sensational, such was the New to association with Rome, the heart and soul of apostasy, and rudely familiar keep at a distance. She doesn't have to say, “I will reason why any band of Spirit-filled Christians should not arouse Testament Church. And so will we be if we dare to follow in that ultimately to universalism, pantheism, panentheism, and idolatry, allow no foul language, no improper advances.” People just don't and excite and stir any community. If they didn't, something train. What kind of people were these New Testament Christians? as we have documented in the book Contemplative Mysticism. curse and otherwise misbehave in the presence of such people. would be wrong. It is argued that the world is so much more They believed in Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. They did not IHOP is so deceived that it believes it will literally direct God’s She repels while she attracts. Christian than it was in the New Testament days that we cannot live on a memory; they believed in One who had died, had risen judgments on earth during the Tribulation. There ought to be that about every Christian when he walks into expect such reactions today. The argument is beside the point. and was coming again. They were filled with the Spirit. They K SBC PRESIDENT ONE IN SPIRIT WITH a gathering, that makes the unholy and profane subdued and The days are darker instead of brighter and the contrast should be were living a supernatural life in this present world. They were all CHARISMATIC MYSTICS AND CATHOLICS - SBC President respectful. There ought to be that about a church that would make all the more pronounced. As for being Christian, our civilization witnesses. To them a missionary was not somebody to visit the Ronnie Floyd is scheduled to participate at IHOP’s OneThing the world never dream of rudely rushing into its fellowship. And has become infected with a mild rash of Christianity that has church now and then to talk about Africa or China. Every conference December 28-31. For those who have eyes to see, this Jesus Himself both attracts and repels. He is the Great Divider. almost immunized it against the real thing. A real revival would Christian was a missionary. is an irrefutable witness to the spiritual deception that has He has attracted more people and driven more people away than be such a contrast with this weak Sunday-morning Laodiceanism Let us try that today, and something will happen. Personal faith permeated the Southern Baptist Convention. At the International