"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18)
It is possible for a whole generation of professing Christians to be victims of poor teaching, low moral standards and unscriptural or extrescriptural doctrines, resulting in stunted growth and retarded development.
It is little less than stark tragedy that an individual Christian may pass from youth to old age in a state of suspended growth and all his life be unaware of it!
Those who question the truth of this have only to read the First Epistle to the Corinthians and the Epistle to the Hebrews; and church history adds all the further proof that is needed.
In today's Christianity, we have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone!
The fact is that we are no longer producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian in our times is but a wretched parody on true sainthood.
Clearly, we must begin to produce better Christians!
We must insist on New Testament sainthood for our converts, nothing less; and we must lead them into a state of heart purity, fiery love, separation from the world and poured-out devotion to the Person of Christ.
Only in this way can the low level of spirituality be raised again to where it should be in the light of the Scriptures and of eternal values.
~A. W. Tozer~
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