False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the
reception of the gospel.
We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed
only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit
the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled
by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent
Christianity from being regarded as anything more
than a harmless delusion. Under such circumstances,
what God desires us to do
is to destroy the obstacle at its root.
J. Gresham Machen |