Reformed, Yet Always Reforming (2)

It is useless and futile to try to come to some conclusions concerning whether the pulpit or the pew is to blame when decay sets in, in the life of the church. The two go together. The Scriptures tell us, in the letter of our Lord Jesus Christ to the church of Ephesus, that spiritual deterioration begins inevitably with the loss of the church's first love. There is good reason why the first of the letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor is a letter to Ephesus. It is useless and futile to...