Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from What the Spirit Saith to the Churches
So Jesus, through the Apostle John, startled those early Churches out of their self-righteous con dition by the messages He sends to the seven Churches of Asia Minor. In these letters there is a plainness and a pointedness that must have pune tared the bubble of their pride and self-satisfaction.
As human nature remains much the same and the Church changes but little from time to time, so we find in these letters from the Master the message that the followers of the Christ need to-day, both in individual and in church relationship.
And we have taken these messages as the basis of our line of thought. The condition depicted in those letters was ancient, but it is also modern. If such a message was needed by the Apostolic Church, it is surely needed by the Church of to-day. We have tried to be fair and frank in our conception of the situation, and we feel that we are honest and sincere in our application of these messages of the Christ.
Our purpose is to present the truth in such a way that it shall reach the reader. We have tried to enable the reader to see the actual conditions of his own life, possibly, and the Church life, not to dis hearten and discourage, but that progress may be possible. We have also endeavored to make clear what the Christian life and the Church life ought to be, and to emphasize the promise and the power of Christ to make it so. We only hope that some one, reading these pages, may find a message that will suit his own life.
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