"If some watcher or holy one who has spent his glad centuries by the sea of fire were to come to earth, how meaningless to him would be the ceaseless chatter of the busy tribes of men. How strange to him and how empty would sound the flat, stale, and profitless words heard in the average pulpit from week to week. And were such a one to speak on earth, would he not speak of God? Would he not charm and fascinate his hearers with rapturous descriptions of the Godhead? And after hearing him could we ever again consent to listen to anything less than theology, the doctrine of God? Would we no thereafter demand of those who would presume to teach us that they speak to us from the mount of divine vision or remain silent altogether?"
- The Knowledge of The Holy
If I understand this right, I would have to agree.
ReplyDeleteLinda, I think you do understand it perfectly - basically if someone returned from Heaven to listen to today's preaching, they would be overwhelmed by how shallow, sad, and man-centric most of our preaching is.
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