Mascall: a message to the worldly

Sunday, February 2, 2020
    THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE
Meditation:
    [Therefore,] remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
    —Ephesians 2:12,13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that “God is teaching us that we must live as men who can get on very well without him,” then the Church has no need to say anything whatever to secularized man, for that is precisely what secularized man already believes.
    ... E. L. Mascall (1905-1993), in The Observer, March 24, 1963, reproduced in The Honest to God Debate, David L. Edwards, ed., London, SCM Press, 1963, p. 93 (see the book)
    See also Num. 11:18-22; Rom. 11:7-8; Eph. 2:11-13; 2 Tim. 4:3
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, use Your people to show the world its need for You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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