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Whats the church for?
You do not have to be a Christian very long to ask yourself, ‘What is the church for?’ Some would say that it is the backbone of the morality of this country. Others would say that the church is here to restore culture. Others think that it is ‘the’ culture, as the swarms of homeschoolers hover around Moscow Idahoe. However Machen says a little different:
“The responsibility of the church in the new age is the same as its responsibility in every age. It is to testify that this world is lost in sin; that the span of human life—nay, all the length of human history—is an infinitesimal island in the awful depths of eternity; that there is a mysterious holy living God, Creator of all, Upholder of all, infinitely beyond all; that he has revealed himself in his Word and offered us communion with himself through Jesus Christ the Lord; that there is no other salvation, for individuals or for nations, save this, but that this salvation is full and free, and that whosoever possesses it has for himself and for all others to whom he may be the instrument of bringing it a treasure compared with which all the kingdoms of the earth—nay, all the wonders of the starry heavens—are as the dust of the street.”(J. Gresham Machen, "The Responsibility of the Church in Our New Age," The Presbyterian Guardian 36:1 (January 1967), 13.)
The mission of the church here is much different, much more consistent. Instead of nipping always at the heals of amorphous culture, the pillar must bear the bloody witness of the ever luminous glory of the risen Christ through its marks. These being more worthy than any other treasure.
Let us be reminded of this, strengthened, renewed, and reminded of what we have been given as the church of Christ. This infinite privilege is here to escort us unto bliss.
“The responsibility of the church in the new age is the same as its responsibility in every age. It is to testify that this world is lost in sin; that the span of human life—nay, all the length of human history—is an infinitesimal island in the awful depths of eternity; that there is a mysterious holy living God, Creator of all, Upholder of all, infinitely beyond all; that he has revealed himself in his Word and offered us communion with himself through Jesus Christ the Lord; that there is no other salvation, for individuals or for nations, save this, but that this salvation is full and free, and that whosoever possesses it has for himself and for all others to whom he may be the instrument of bringing it a treasure compared with which all the kingdoms of the earth—nay, all the wonders of the starry heavens—are as the dust of the street.”(J. Gresham Machen, "The Responsibility of the Church in Our New Age," The Presbyterian Guardian 36:1 (January 1967), 13.)
The mission of the church here is much different, much more consistent. Instead of nipping always at the heals of amorphous culture, the pillar must bear the bloody witness of the ever luminous glory of the risen Christ through its marks. These being more worthy than any other treasure.
Let us be reminded of this, strengthened, renewed, and reminded of what we have been given as the church of Christ. This infinite privilege is here to escort us unto bliss.
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