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August 18, 2004
Welcome to the Church in America
"A preacher stands against the immorality of adultery, but all the while he harbors anger toward he harbors anger toward the third parishioner from the left because the parishioner challenged on of his teachings three months ago. Is anger not as evil as adultery? Or a woman who scorns the man across the aisle for alcoholic indiscretions, while she routinely gossips about him after services. Is gossip not as evil as any vice? What's especially damaging in both cases is that neither the man who harbors anger nor the woman who gossips seriously considers the evil of their own actions. Their sins remain hidden. This is the true cancer in the church."
"Sounds like the same cancer that eats away at the rest of society."
"Exactly. Although in the church it makes every attempt to remain hidden, where it is left alone to grow in the dark. You ever wonder why incidences of divorce and gluttony and virtually all of evil's fruits are as high in the church as in society at large?"
"Actually, I didn't know that."
"Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception."
- Dr. John Francis and Special Agent Jennifer Peters in "Thr3e" by Ted Dekker
Posted by Jesse at August 18, 2004 4:06 PM