DISCIPLE

This article was written in 1963, and the problems identified in it are even more widespread today than they were at that time. Few churches today are willing to accept the authority of Christ and His right to govern. 2 Timothy 4.3-4 is being fulfilled. THE WANING AUTHORITY OF CHRIST IN THE CHURCHES  by A. W. Tozer   HERE IS THE BURDEN of my heart; and while I claim for myself no special inspiration, I yet feel that this is also the burden of the Spirit. If I know my own heart it is love alone that moves me to write this. What I write here is not the sour ferment of a mind agitated by contentions with my fellow Christians. There have been no such contentions. I have not been abused, mistreated or attacked by anyone. Nor have these observations grown out of any unpleasant experiences that I have had in my association with others. My relations with my own church as well as with Christians of other denominations have been friendly, courteous and pleasant. My grief is simply...

by Renald Showers (1935-2019)     This is a time of humanism, instability, wear a nd false p rophets and Christs. The rejection of God's rule which started for man in the Garden of Eden seems to be reaching a frenzied pitch. Man is determined to prove that he can rule the world in an orderly, meaningful way without God. He asserts that the ultimate purpose of everything is the glory and exaltation of man. His ma n-centered mania not only makes him refuse to submit to the rule of God but also renders him incapable of submitting (Rom. 8:7).      Because man rejects the rule of God, his pride drives him to do things opposite to what God has ordained. God ordained capital punishment for murderers, but man tries to abolish it. God regards human life as being valuable because He created it in His image, but man destroys it by the millions through abortion. God instituted marriage and ordained that it be permanent, but man divorces and suggests that marriage be ab...