How Should We Measure Correctness?

How Should We Measure Correctness?

Quoting Horatius Bonar . . .

\tWe have come to a place in time where we measure the correctness of our plans simply by their seeming to contribute to our favorite aim. We estimate the soundness of our doctrine, not from its tendency to exalt and glorify God - but entirely by the apparent facility with which it enables us to get sinners to turn from their ways.

The question is not asked concerning any doctrine, Is it in itself a God-honoring truth, but will it afford us facilities for converting souls? Will it make conversion a more easy thing, a thing which a man may accomplish for himself and by himself? Will it make conversion less dependent upon God, more dependent upon man? \t

From: \tTruth and Error, 1861

The question is not asked concerning any doctrine, Is it in itself a God-honoring truth, but will it afford us facilities for converting souls? Will it make conversion a more easy thing, a thing which a man may accomplish for himself and by himself? Will it make conversion less dependent upon God, more dependent upon man?

And this was written in 1861??!! Wonder what he would say if saw what passes today for evangelism??!!

ginnyrose

Many modern evangelism methods sprung from that era and the "second great awakening".

And this was written in 1861??!! Wonder what he would say if saw what passes today for evangelism??!!

My thoughts exactly. I suffer from a preconceived idea that everything was pure and peachy back in the day. The plain and simple truth is….it just ain’t true. The devil as long been at work and the Church of old was under attack as well. Still…those dates get to me. It wasn’t like that on Little House on the Prairie!