Ten Reasons Why Your Kids Might Think You Are No Fun

Marriage and Family - Some Hard Words for Fathers
Written by Douglas Wilson
You believe the heel of the loaf of bread has more nutrients in it because it is browner. You think that kids were made for the living room and not the living room for the kids. You believe that being a disciplinarian consists of using repeated commands in a professional bossy voice. You think that telling stories at the dinner table is weird. You think that laughter at the dinner table is even weirder. You possess a bag of carob chips, which you put into cookies made out of trail mix. You place a high value on "teaching them a work ethic," but that value is not nearly as high as your "slave labor is great ethic." You don't want them to know any dumb music. You think dessert is for sissies. You want them to learn to appreciate you without you ever appreciating them.

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Excerpt from Book by Bryan Chapell - Holiness by Grace

The message that our gracious God loves us fully despite our sin necessarily implies that he does not account our good works as the reason that he must show us his affection. This truth provides comfort to those whose failures afflict their consciences, but it also robs all of us of any cause for pride in self and of all personal resources for brokering God’s gifts into personal rewards. Long-term Christian workers may find these truths particularly distasteful. It is easy to feel, even if we would theologically dispute the claim, that God owes us his favor for faithful service.

An old tale speaks of a man who died and faced the angel Gabriel at heaven’s gates. Said the angel to the man, “Here’s how this works. You need a hundred points to make it into heaven. You tell me all the good things that you have done, and I will give you a certain number of points for each of them. The more good there is in the work that you cite, the more points you will get for it. When you get to a hundred points, you get in.”

“Okay,” the man said, “I was married to the same woman for fifty years and never cheated on her, even in my heart.” “

That’s wonderful,” said Gabriel, “that’s worth three points.”

“Three points?” said the man incredulously.

“Well, I attended church all my life and supported its ministry with my money and service.”

“Terrific!” said Gabriel, “that’s certainly worth a point.”

“One point?” said the man with his eyes beginning to show a bit of panic.

“Well, how about this: I opened a shelter for the homeless in my city, and fed needy people by the hundreds during the holidays.”

“Fantastic, that’s good for two more points,” said the angel.

“TWO POINTS!!” cried the man in desperation. “At this rate the only way that I will get into heaven is by the grace of God.”

“Come on in,” said Gabriel.

Because of “the great disproportion” between our best works and God’s true holiness, we are unable to trade our righteousness for God’s favor. Our bargaining chips of good works have no currency with God. God will bless according to his purposes good works done in
obedience to him, but we cannot bind him to our definition or preferred degree of his blessing. God’s blessings, for instance, may come in the form of difficulties that bring us closer to understanding his heart by allowing us to share in Christ’s sufferings (Phil. 3:10).

If the reason we obey God is to bribe him with our goodness, we need to be reminded that God will be no one’s debtor (Job 41:11; Rom. 11:35). We cannot bank on having a great academic career because we vow to study hard. We cannot secure an absence of family difficulties because our dinner devotions are consistent. We cannot guarantee financial success in our business because we operate with integrity. Our attempts to barter for God’s kindness with our goodness, great efforts, and long-standing resolutions will not move him.

As we discover that the works we thought would justify us before God cannot do so, we ultimately realize that the old gospel song “Rock of Ages” really got it right:

Not the labors of my hands can fulfill thy law’s demands; could my zeal no respite know, could my tears forever flow, all for sin could not atone; thou must save, and thou alone. 

Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to thy cross I cling; naked, come to thee for dress; helpless, look to thee for grace; foul, I to the Fountain fly; wash me, Savior, or I die. 

Many of us regularly sing these words with the thought of our initial salvation in mind. We rejoice that God made us right with him (or “justified” us, as the theologians say) apart from any goodness in us. But health and vigor will be added to our spiritual service as we understand that this song applies to us at every stage of our Christian lives. To grasp fully the grace that daily restores our confidence in his love, we must keep our hands empty of any claim that God must bless us on the basis of our goodness. For if he loves us because of what is in our hands, then the days will come when we will believe that his affection has diminished because our works are small, or that his care has vanished because our deeds are wrong.

Bryan Chapell  (2003-02-10). Holiness by Grace (pp. 23-24).

The Treasure that Turns Other Treasures to Garbage

John Piper

Philippians 3:7-9  But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.  8  Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ  9  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.....

Paul has a way of playing your game, winning, and then saying the game is bunk. He does it, for example, in 2 Corinthians 11:21-12:11 where he lists his "superior" achievements and then says, "I have been a fool! You forced me to it" (2 Corinthians 12:11). In other words, I can play your game of measuring myself by your standards, win, and then call it all worthless. It is fool's play. 

He does it again here in Philippians 3. He warns the church to watch out for the evildoing dogs who mutilate the flesh (people who insist on circumcision as a way of getting right with God). The problem with these people is that they "put confidence in the flesh"-that is, they bank on their works for justification (vv. 2-3, cf. v. 9).

So Paul says, OK let's play that game for a moment. And then he lists his works of the flesh and knocks his opponents out of the ring with legal achievements. "If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more." Indeed he does. 

Then come three of the best verses in all the Bible. In essence: the victory I just won in the contest of the flesh is a pile of garbage (the Greek is sku,bala, v. 8). And the reason he uses such a strong word (refuse!) is that the alternative is Christ. Compared to Christ being the greatest Pharisee of his time was foul garbage.

But that is too vague. He is not vague. He does not say simply that compared to Christ legal achievements are garbage; he is more specific. He says that what is superior to moral and religious achievements is 1) knowing Christ, 2) gaining Christ, and 3) being found in Christ. 

1. Knowing Christ. "Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord" (v. 8). "Knowing" here is not just knowing the fact that Jesus is Lord. It is the kind of knowing that prompts the phrase, "my Lord"! He knows the supreme Lord of the universe (see 2:9-11) as his Lord. So there are two aspects to Paul's passion for Christ here. One is the rational and relational knowledge of the greatest person in the universe. Paul's mind and heart are full of Christ. The other is that he belongs to Christ as subject to the all-ruling, all-protecting Lord. This is better than being at the top of any human heap. 

2. Gaining Christ. "For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ" (v. 8). "Gain" means get all that Christ is for us in heaven, not just on earth. Paul has already said, "To live is Christ and to die is gain" (v. 21), because "to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better" (1:23). And he is about to say, "I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own" (3:12). So it is clear that part of what makes human achievement a pile of garbage compared to Christ is that soon (and very soon!) he is going to meet the king-in a way far more full and intimate and stunning and satisfying than anything he has known here. And he has known so much of Christ here that the garbage verdict has been rendered on that alone. 

3. Being found in Christ. ". . . and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith" (v. 9). Paul was overwhelmed by the fact that "in Christ"-that is, united to Christ by faith alone-he possessed a righteousness that was infinitely better than all his legal achievements could ever be. Paul knew he needed a righteous life in order to be accepted by God and in order to enjoy all the glories of Christ forever. He did not have such a righteousness in himself. He needed the free gift of righteousness from God himself. God gave it to him in Christ.

Therefore Jesus Christ was both the treasure he cherished and the one who provided the right to have the treasure. In Christ alone Paul had a right to know and gain Christ. And that is all he wanted. That is the gospel. This is what we mean by treasuring Christ together. Christ alone is the ground of our acceptance with God and the goal of our heart's desire. He is our righteousness and our reward. Compared to him (knowing him, gaining him, being found in him) all else is garbage. 

Treasuring Christ together with you,

Pastor John

Desiring God

The Gospel Centered Life

This first thing to remember, of course, is that we must never separate the benefits (regeneration, justification, sanctification) from the Benefactor (Jesus Christ).

The Christians who are most focused on their own spirituality may give the impression of being the most spiritual ... but from the New Testament's point of view, those who have almost forgotten about their own spirituality because their focus is so exclusively on their union with Jesus Christ and what He has accomplished are those who are growing and exhibiting fruitfulness. Historically speaking, whenever the piety of a particular group is focused on OUR spirituality that piety will eventually exhaust itself on its own resources. Only where our piety forgets about our-self and focuses on Jesus Christ will our piety nourished by the ongoing resources the Spirit brings to us from the source of all true piety, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hmmmm?
Sinclair Ferguson

You might be a Calvinist . . .

The following is from the Disciple Man blog:You Might Just Be A Calvinist If…. 

• If you have a Martin Luther Jell-O mold… you just might be a Calvinist.
• If your DVR has over 25 episodes of Wretched With Todd Friel recorded on it… you just might be a Calvinist.
• If your child’s first word was “Westminster”… you just might be a Calvinist.
• If your 4 year old can explain what the word “propitiation” means… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If you send your mother tulips on Mother’s Day… you might be a Calvinist.
• If your passion for evangelism blows away your Arminian friends… you might just be a (true) Calvinist.
• If you hate rap music BUT you listen to Lecrea, The Cross Movement, Flame or D.A. T.R.U.T.H. because of the lyrics and theology… you might be a Calvinist.
• If quotes from Pink, Spurgeon, Luther, Piper, and McArthur make up 90% of your Facebook statuses…you might be a Calvinist.
• If you still remember the 8 speakers in order from the recent T4G conference… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you cringe every time you hear someone proclaim “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life! Choose Jesus!”… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you’ve ever wanted to attend a Benny Hinn crusade just so you could stand up and shout “Ichabod!!”… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If you purposefully read a book to be convicted… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If a free Bible or book has ever arrived in the mail to you from John McArthur… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you have to order theological books online because no one at the Christian bookstore has ever heard of them… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If you have ever purchased 100 or more copies of the same John Piper book to hand out to random people you meet …you just might be a Calvinist.
• If you ever have found yourself thinking “My pastor’s sermon was particularly Spurgeonesque this morning”… you just might be a Calvinist.
• If you read “The Purpose Driven Life” just to see how bad the book really is… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If you go to your bookshelf in search of a particular John MacArthur book only to discover that your 14 year old son is reading it up in his bedroom… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If you purchased an MP3 player with the sole purpose of downloading sermons… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you were shocked to just discover that some people download MP3 files that are not sermons… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you have adjusted the default passage setting at www.biblegateway.org from “NIV” to “ESV” … you might be a Calvinist.
• If while visiting friends or family’s homes you hid their copy of “The Shack” (for their own good)… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If your preacher says to turn to Obadiah and you do not use the index… you might be a Calvinist.
• If your teenagers are excited that your church’s youth group is learning Biblical theology and being spiritually challenged instead of playing stupid games and eating pizza…. you might just be a Calvinist.
• If you think a 50-minute sermon is too short… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you’ve ever heard a wave of groans sweep through Sunday School when you refer to Romans 9… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you find yourself talking to the Lord Jesus more than to your family… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you get irritated when you visit a Christian bookstore and ask where they keep the books on deeper theology and they point you to the Joel Osteen section… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If you find yourself wanting to read your Bible instead of watching television… you might be a Calvinist.
• If quotes from Pink, Spurgeon, Luther, Piper, and McArthur pop into your head at random times during the day …you might be a Calvinist.
• If you can barely contain your laughter when someone refers to Joyce Meyer as a “minister”… you might just be a Calvinist.
• If you are confused when someone uses the term “my Bible” as if they only have one…you might be a Calvinist.
• If your Bibles must be replaced in less than a year due to pages separating from the spine…you might be a Calvinist.
• If you smile, nod and hold your tongue with your teeth after a lively church service when someone says, “God showed up today”… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you’ve ever shouted “YES!” when the pastor says to turn to 1st Thessalonians…you might be a Calvinist.
• If you see 6:37 on a digital clock and think of the Lord Jesus’ words in John… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you’ve muted a Thanksgiving football game because it’s interfering with your family discussion of Ephesians 1… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you havebookmarked three or more preachers’ scripture index webpages… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you’ve ever been banned from a Sunday School class for quoting scripture… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you have ever purposefully sung a different word in a hymn to conform to scripture… you might be a Calvinist.
• If your kids own more Bibles than televisions… you might be a Calvinist.
• If your children never ask you “Where are we going?” on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you’ve ever read parts of “The Bondage of the Will” to children under ten and prayed that it would change their lives… you might be a Calvinist.
• If your children argue and you require them to listen to a Piper Sermon as punishment… you might be a Calvinist.
• If you visit spurgeon.org, desiringgod.org, and gty.org, more than once a day, yep… you guessed it… YOU, my dear friend, might just be a Calvinist!!
  
  
  
  
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The Unrepenting Repenter

By Jim Elliff
Matthew 7:17-23 

“Most people will spend far more time examining the vegetables in the supermarket that they will ever spend scrutinizing their faith.” From Wasted Faith 

The believer in Christ is a lifelong repenter. 

He begins with repentance and continues in repentance. (Romans 8:12-13)

- David sinned giant sins but fell without a stone at the mere finger of the prophet because he was a repenter at heart (2 Samuel 12:7-13).

- Peter denied Christ three times but suffered three times the remorse until he repented with bitter tears (Matthew 26:75).

Every Christian is called a repenter, but he must be a repenting repenter.

The Bible assumes the repentant nature of all true believers in its instruction on church discipline.

A man unwilling to repent at the loving rebuke of the church can be considered nothing more than "a heathen and a tax collector." (Matthew 18:15-17) 

What is repentance? 

Repentance is a change of mind regarding sin and God, an inward turning from sin to God, which is known by its fruit—obedience. (Matthew 3:8; Acts 26:20; Luke 13:5-9)

It is hating what you once loved and loving what you once hated, exchanging irresistible sin for an irresistible Christ. The true repenter is cast on God. Faith is his only option. When he fully knows that sin utterly fails him, God takes him up. (Matthew 9:13b) He will have faith or he will have despair; conviction will either deliver him or devour him. 

The religious man often deceives himself in his repentance. 

- The believer may sin the worst of sins, it is true; but to remain in the love of sin, or to be comfortable in the atmosphere of sin, is a deadly sign, for only repenters inhabit heaven.

- The deceived repenter would be a worse sinner if he could, but society holds him back.
 

- He can tolerate and even enjoy other worldly professing Christians and pastors well enough, but does not desire holy fellowship or the fervent warmth of holy worship.

- If he is intolerant of a worship service fifteen minutes "too long," how will he feel after fifteen million years into the eternal worship service of heaven?

- He aspires to a heaven of lighthearted ease and recreation—an extended vacation; but a heaven of holiness would be hell to such a man.

- Yet God is holy, and God is in heaven. He cannot be blamed for sending the unholy man to hell despite his most articulate profession (Hebrews 12:14). 

What are the Substitutes for true Repentance? 

1. You may reform in the actions without repenting in the heart.

(Psalm. 51: 16-17; Joel 2:13) This is a great deception, for the love of sin remains. (I John 2:15-17; Acts 8:9-24) At this the Pharisees were experts. (Mark 7:1-23)

· The heart of a man is his problem.
· A man may appear perfect in his actions but be damned for his heart.
· His actions are at best self-serving and hypocritical.
· What comes from a bad heart is never good.

"Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs?

Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh." (James 3:11-12) 

2. You may experience the emotion of repentance without the effect of it.

Here is a kind of amnesia. You see the awful specter of sin in the mirror and flinch out of horror yet immediately forget what kind of person you saw (James 1:23-24).

It is true, repentance includes sincere emotion, an affection for God and a disaffection for sin. Torrents of sorrow may flood the repenter's heart, and properly so (James 4:8-10). 

But there is such a thing as a temporary emotion in the mere semblance of repentance; this emotion has very weak legs and cannot carry the behavior in the long walk of obedience. Your sorrow may even be prolonged. Yet if it does not arrive at repentance, it is of the world and is a living death—and maybe more (2 Corinthians 7: 10). It is an old deceiver. 

Judas had such remorse but "went and hanged himself." (Matthew 27:3-5) 

3. You may confess the words of a true repenter and never repent. 

(Matthew 21:28-32; 1 John 2:4, 4:20) Confession by itself is not repentance. 

Confession moves the lips; repentance moves the heart. Naming an act as evil before God is not the same as leaving it. Though your confession may be honest and emotional, it is not enough unless it expresses a true change of heart.

There are those who confess only for the show of it, whose so-called repentance may be theatrical but not actual.

If you express repentance to appear successful, you will not be successful at repenting. You will speak humbly but sin arrogantly. Saul gave the model confession (I Samuel 15:24-26) and later went to hell. Repentance "from the teeth out" is no repentance. 

4. You may repent for the fear of reprisal alone and not for the hatred of sin. 

Any man will stop sinning when caught or relatively sure he will be, unless there is insufficient punishment or shame attached (I Timothy 1:8-11).

When there are losses great enough to get his attention, he will reform. 

If this is the entire motive of his repentance, he has not repented at all. 

It is the work of law, but not grace.

Men can be controlled by fear, but what is required is a change of heart. Achan admitted his sin after being caught but would not have otherwise. Find his bones in the valley of Achor; his soul, most likely, in hell. (Joshua 7:16-26) 

5. You may talk against sin in public like a true repenter but never repent in private. (Matthew 23:1-3) 

The exercise of the mouth cannot change the heart. Your sin is like a prostitute. You are speaking against your lover in public but embracing her in the bedroom. She is not particular about being run down in public if she can have your full attention in private.

"Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?" (James 4:4) 

6. You may repent primarily for temporal gains rather than the glory of God.

There are gains for the repenter, but the final motivation for repenting cannot be selfish.

Self is a dead, stinking carcass to be discarded. We are to repent because God is worthy and is our respected authority, even if we gain nothing. Indeed, our repenting may appear to lose us more than our sin had gained. (Matthew 16:24-26; Philippians 3:7-8) And this is a test of true repentance. 

7. You may repent of lesser sins for the purpose of avoiding the greater sins. 

(Luke 11:42) We try to salve our nagging conscience by some minor exercise of repentance, which is really no repentance at all.

The whole heart is changed in the believer. The half repenter is a divided man: part against sin and part for it; part against Christ, part for Him. But one or the other must win out, for man cannot serve God and mammon (or any other idol); he must love the one and hate the other. (Matthew 6:24) 

8. You may repent so generally that you never repent of any specific sin at all. 

The man who repents in too great a generality is likely covering his sins. (Proverbs 28:13) 

If there are no particular changes, there is no repenting. Sin has many heads, like the mythological Hydra. It cannot be dealt with in general, but its heads must be cut off one by one. 

9. You may repent for the love of friends and religious leaders and not repent for the love of God. 

(Isaiah 1: 10-17) A man talked into repentance may reform for the love of friends or the respect of the spiritually minded, yet do nothing substantial. 

If a man turns from sin without turning to God, he will find his sin has only changed its name and is hidden behind his pride.

Now it will be harder to rout for its subterfuge. You have loved others but not God. And you have loved yourself most of all.

Lot's wife left the city of sin at the insistence of an angel and for the love of her family, but turned back. She had left her heart.

"Remember Lot's wife." (Genesis 19:12-26; Luke 17:32)

10. You may confess the finished action of sin and not repent from the continuing habit of sin. 

If a man is honest, he is a good man in human terms; but he is not a repenting man until the sin is stabbed to death. He must be a murderer if he would be God's: "For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live." (Romans 8: 13) God knows what you have done; what He wants is obedience. (Luke 6:46) 

11. You may attempt repentance of your sin while consciously leaving open the door of its opportunity.

A man who says “I repent" but will not leave the source or environment of that sin is suspect. Though some situations which invite temptation cannot be changed, most can. A man who will not flee the setting of his temptation when he is able still loves his sin. A mouse is foolish to build his nest under the cat's bed. "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts." (Romans 13:14) 

12. You may make an effort to repent of some sins without repenting of all the sin you know.

The businessman learns to show concern for the needs of his clients, yet he batters his wife through neglect.

Another gives his money in the offering plate weekly but steals time from his employer daily.

Every man boasts of some sins conquered, but true repentance is a repulsion of sin as a whole.

The repenter hates all sin, though he fails more readily in some than in others. He may not know all his sins, but what he knows he spurns.

Repentance is universal in the believer; the spirit is willing even when the flesh is weak (Matthew 26:41). 

Repentance and faith are bound together. A repenting man has no hope for obedience without faith in the source of all holiness, God Himself. In repenting of sins, he loses his self-sufficiency. God is his sanctifier. (Jude 24-25; 1 Thessalonians. 5:23-24; 1 Peter 1:5)

Repentance is a gift of God (Acts 11:19; 2 Timothy 2:25) and

a duty of man (Acts 17:30; Luke 13:3). 

You will know if it has been granted by the exercise of it. (Philippians 2:12-13) Do not wait for it; run toward it. "Be zealous and repent." (Revelation 3:19)  

Pursue it and you will find it; forget it and perish.

REPENT

You know you know God as Father when you cry to him in suffering, “Father!”

The Great Disparity

Excerpt from A. W. Tozer 

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and which in its effect upon the Christian religion may be more destructive than Communism, Romanism and Liberalism combined. It is the glaring disparity between theology and practice among professing Christians. 

So wide is the gulf that separates theory from practice in the church that an inquiring stranger who chances upon both would scarcely dream that there was any relation between them. An intelligent observer of our human scene who heard the Sunday morning sermon and later watched the Sunday afternoon conduct of those who had heard it would conclude that he had been examining two distinct and contrary religions.

A church conference, for instance, may listen to and applaud the most spiritual message, and twenty minutes later adopt the most carnal procedure, altogether as if they had not heard the impassioned moral appeal a few moments before. Christians habitually weep and pray over beautiful truth, only to draw back from that same truth when it comes to the difficult job of putting it in practice. The average church simply does not dare to check its practices against Biblical precepts. It tolerates things that are diametrically opposed to the will of God, and if the matter is pointed out to its leaders they will defend its unscriptural practices with a smooth casuistry equal to the verbal dodging of the Roman moralists.

This can be explained only by assuming a lack of integration in the religious personality. There seems to be no vital connection between the emotional and volitional departments of the life. The mind can approve and the emotions enjoy while the will drags its feet and refuses to go along. And since Christ makes His appeal directly to the will, are we not justified in wondering whether or not these divided souls have ever made a true committal to the Lord? Or whether they have been inwardly renewed?

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right. So the divorce between theory and practice becomes permanent in fact, though in word the union is declared to be eternal. Truth sits forsaken and grieves till her professed followers come home for a brief visit, but she sees them depart again when the bills become due. They protest great and undying love for her but they will not let their love cost them anything.

Could this be the condition our Lord had in mind when He said: 

Revelation 3:1 (NIV) "...I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead."

What can the effect be upon the spectators who live day after day among professed Christians who habitually ignore the commandments of Christ and live after their own private notions of Christianity? Will they not conclude that the whole thing is false? Will they not be forced to believe that the faith of Christ is an unreal and visionary thing which they are fully justified in rejecting? 

Certainly the non-Christian is not too much to be blamed if he turns disgustedly away from the invitation of the Gospel after he has been exposed for a while to the inconsistencies of those of his acquaintance who profess to follow Christ. The deadening effect of religious make-believe on the human mind is beyond all describing.

In that great and terrible day when the deeds of men are searched into by the penetrating eyes of the Judge of all the earth what will we answer when we are charged with inconsistency and moral fraud? And at whose door will lie the blame for the millions of lost men who while they lived on earth were sickened and revolted by the religious travesty they knew as Christianity?