Re-reading Brennan Manning’s The Signature of Jesus , I came across these paragraphs which state:

If the gospel were proclaimed without compromise, the roster of card-carrying Christians in this country would shrink. Most televangelism distorts the gospel. There is no reference to the Cross except as a theological relic, no clarion call to the body of Christ that we are crucified to the world and the world around us. In a half an hour, the electronic evangelist has to convert you, heal you, and guarantee your success. Everybody is a winner; nobody loses his business, fails in marriage, or lives in poverty. If you are an attractive nineteen year old and accept Jesus, you become Miss America; if you have a drinking problem, you conquer alcoholism; if you are in the National Football League, you automatically go to the Pro Bowl.

Incredible as it may sound, the Word itself has become a source of division and self-righetousness…..

However, in an arrogant gesture of one-upmanship, many prechers today have decided that Jesus’ standard for discipleship is inadequate for modern times. The new criterion is orthodoxy of doctrine coupled with the way we interpret the Bible. “Right thinking” is the new norm for determining what a Christian is worth….

I stopped and tried to think about what was just said in that paragraph. However, another disheartening thing came into my thought. I had just discovered a blog that I was starting to read on a daily basis and discovered one day that the blog poster had decided to quit blogging (too bad).

Reading some other web pages, I learned of the story and what had happened that caused this person to quit blogging. It was the story that first came into my mind after I had read Manning’s paragraph.

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