Maltby: no substitute for Conversion

Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Meditation:
    In [Christ] we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
    —Ephesians 1:11-12 (NIV)
Quotation:
    If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individualism of the Christian salvation,... the Church itself will not be much enriched by an accession of panic-stricken fugitives from a Personal God. And many unhappy young people are discovering now that Church membership is not the equivalent of being reconciled to God, and a kind of Confirmation is not a substitute for Conversion.
    ... William Russell Maltby (1866-1951), Obiter Scripta, London: Epworth Press, 1952, p. 117-118 (see the book)
    See also Eph. 1:11-12; Luke 19:2-10; Acts 8:30-36; 13:48; Rom. 5:11; 8:29-30; 2 Cor. 5:17-19; Eph. 1:4-6; Philemon 1:10; 1 Pet. 2:9
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, restore the authentic Gospel to those who have lost it. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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