Me: Did you enjoy lunch?
Prodigal: Yes, and now it is time for some good conversation.
Me: I agree.
This is from the book How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit by A.W. Tozer
You may not be ready because your conception of religion is social and not spiritual. There are people like that. They have watered down the religion of the New Testament until it has no strength in it. They have introduced the water of their own opinion into it until it has no taste left. They are socially minded. This is far as it goes with them. People like that they may be saved. I am not prepared to say that they are not ready for what I am talking about. The gospel of Christ is essentially spiritual, and Christian truth working upon human souls by the Holy Ghost makes Christian men and women spiritual.
I don’t want to say this, but I think that some of you may be ready for this message because you are more influenced by the world than you are by the New Testament. I am perfectly certain that I could rake up fifteen boxcar loads of fundamentalist Christians this hour in the city of Chicago who are more influenced in their whole outlook by Hollywood than they are by the Lord Jesus Christ. I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox religion grafted on to a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions.
And he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:2
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
