Soft breed of contemporary Christians
"The contemporary moral climate does not favor a faith as
tough and fibrous as that taught by our Lord and His apostles. The
delicate, brittle saints being produced in our religious hothouses today
are hardly to be compared with the committed, expendable believers who
once gave their witness among men. And the fault lies with our leaders.
They are too timid to tell the people all the truth. They are now asking
men to give to God that which costs them nothing.
Our churches these days are filled (or one-quarter filled) with a soft breed of Christian that must be fed on a diet of harmless fun to keep them interested. About theology they know little. Scarcely any of them have read even one of the great Christian classics, but most of them are familiar with religious fiction and spine-tingling films. No wonder their moral and spiritual constitution is so frail. Such can only be called weak adherents of a faith they never really understood."
Our churches these days are filled (or one-quarter filled) with a soft breed of Christian that must be fed on a diet of harmless fun to keep them interested. About theology they know little. Scarcely any of them have read even one of the great Christian classics, but most of them are familiar with religious fiction and spine-tingling films. No wonder their moral and spiritual constitution is so frail. Such can only be called weak adherents of a faith they never really understood."
A. W. Tozer
