Where one problem lies, especially in “second generation” Christianity, is that the second commandment is held higher than the first. And, if a man or woman walks in morality, he is accounted as a fine Christian: despite the fact that he walks more or less pleasing the desires of his body, eye, and ambition: a “Christian” Epicurean.
Sports, hobbies, adornments in clothes, gluttony, the “arts”: if we are going to receive a genuine out-pouring of God Himself into our life, these will all have to go. And whatever space these occupied in our hearts will have to be filled with love to God.
I highly recommend the book. You hear of the revival of yesteryear, but almost never hear of the lives those Christians lived. This book records it.
How the Methodists Saved America
by Mike Atnip ~ http://www.elcristianismoprimitivo.com/english_index.htm
I highly recommend the book. You hear of the revival of yesteryear, but almost never hear of the lives those Christians lived. This book records it.