Can’t Take it for Granted

She [the church] has felt that it is a very good thing for people to be within the home of the church, that she may protect them from the temptations of the world. But the tragedy is that so often she takes it for granted that these people are truly Christians. The church has addressed, to such, messages which are quite appropriate for the true Christian, but are not of much value to those who lack the essence of the faith. Thus, I say, it comes to pass that the church can be a very dangerous place. It may be that because these people are in the church they will never have addressed directly to them some of the primary, fundamental questions which all true Christians must be able to answer. There is a real danger of our assuming that we are Chrsitians for wrong and false reasons, and I do not hesitate to say that it is a very real and great danger.

-D. M. Lloyd-Jones, True Christian Discipleship

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