Wednesday, January 13, 2010

False Converts

I am more afraid of a false revival, than I'm afraid of no revival. False Gospel, False Evangelists, False Converts, False Joy. I'm more afraid of that, than I am of no revival. We'd be better off with no revival a' tall, than the wrong kind. And you had better have your eyes open for that because some of it will seem so genuine as to decieve the very elect if they could. Church leaders will endorse it, and other good people were not there to oppose it, for fear they'll be fighting against God. And the farther we get from reality the more we go even in the Church into make-believe, that's why drama will flourish. The more the church goes into drama the farther away she gets from real religion. Because not having the real thing she specializes on pretending. That's why some of 'em have become glorified night-clubs. And others they worship the great god enterntainment. And how frantically we plunge in all directions today trying popularize the gospel.

Vance Havner