True Christianity by Charles G. Finney
By Charles G. Finney
What's precise Christianity? there's probably no greater individual in contemporary historical past to respond to this question than Charles Finney. Finney (1792-1875) was once the main robust Christian preacher of the 1800s who sought to obviously articulate what the Scriptures say approximately residing the real Christian existence that pleases God. He fearlessly challenged his hearers to carry each point in their lives into obedience to God. This e-book comprises 16 messages of Finney that describe the fundamental perform of Christianity. each one message will problem your religion in a deep approach and phone you to the lifestyles that God intends.
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12. Neglect of watch over your fellow believers. How often have you broken your covenant that you would watch over them in the Lord! How little do you know or care about the state of their souls! And yet you are under a solemn oath to watch over them. What have you done to make yourself acquainted with them? In how many of them have you interested yourself, to know their spiritual state? Go over the list, and wherever you find there has been a neglect, write it down. How many times have you seen your fellow believers growing cold in religion, and have not spoken to them about it?
But when they are required to do anything that requires them to deny themselves — oh, that is too much! They think they are doing a great deal for God, and doing about as much as the Lord should reasonably ask. But they are not willing to deny themselves any comfort or convenience for the sake of serving the Lord. They will not willingly suffer hardship for the name of Christ. Nor will they deny TRUE CHRISTIANITY 41 themselves the luxuries of life, to save a world from hell. They are so far from remembering that self-denial is a condition of discipleship that they do not know what self-denial is.
Take a real Christian, one who has truly repented, and every time you bring the truth to bear upon him to break him down before God, he becomes more and more soft, affected, melted, and broken down under God’s blessed word, as long as he lives and to all eternity. His heart gets into the habit of following the convictions of his understanding, and he becomes as teachable as a little child. Here is the grand distinction. Let churches, or individual members, 30 TRUE AND FALSE REPENTANCE who have only this worldly repentance, pass through a revival6 , and be woken up, and bustle about, and then grow cold again.