The bishops of God’s church, the professed leaders of the Lord’s hosts, the pretended followers of the Redeemer, have done more damage to the church than all the church’s enemies. If the church were not a divine thing, protected by God, she must have ceased to exist, merely through the failure and iniquity of her own professed friends. I do not wonder that the church of God survived martyrdom and death; but I do marvel that she has survived the unfaithfulness of her own children, and the cruel backsliding of her own members.
Found over at pyromaniacs
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Like it, and so true..I read this one last night and thought it was great. Simple, but so much truth. "As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence."