A friend made a reference on his blog to a very influential writing from the last century. I had not (or do not remember having) read the document in its entirety before. The author had penned this paragraph close to the end:
But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust
Without you looking it up, I have two questions for you:
- Who wrote these word?; and
- Have we recaptured that sacrificial spirit of the early church?