MacGregor: called by its right name

Monday, December 11, 2017
Meditation:
    The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
    —Proverbs 1:7 (NIV)
Quotation:
    In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, often pretended to chide Christians for having invented the term “secularist,” a term which, they said, was devoid of meaning. Their leaders knew very well, however, that secularism, like any other parasite, derives its sustenance from the object on which it feeds, and so they were rather pleased when milquetoast Christians timidly offered, as a definition of secularism, “living as though God did not exist.” What Christians should have called it was, rather, “a contemptibly fraudulent way of living on the cheap, by reaping the maximum fruits of Christian effort, while contributing the minimum effort of your own.” When secularists accused Christians of “living in the past,” the Christians ought to have retaliated by pointing out that secularists were “living off the past.” By the time they got around to doing so, however, the majority of secularists had become morally incapable of seeing the point.
    ... Geddes MacGregor (1909-1998), From a Christian Ghetto, London: Longmans, Green, 1954 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 14:1; Prov. 1:7,29-31; 18:2; John 3:18-21; Rom. 1:28;
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send Your light! CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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