Light Jazzy Religion
"A program of light jazzy religion can equally stultify spiritual growth. And too many ministers have not learned that sermonettes by preacherettes make Christianettes. If you want to have a strong spiritual life, you must spend time on it. The growth of the soul is a definite thing, and we must obey the rules of spiritual dietetics if we would come into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. ...What does it mean to import truth from one heart to another? It should be understood that it is a vertical work and not a horizontal one. There have been those who have attempted to introduce into the Christian vocabulary the idea of sharing. There was quite a vogue of this sharing a few years ago. One man who had been a drunkard would tell another drunkard that he himself had been that way, and that he could share certain experiences with him, and certain knowledge of how to ove...