Most congregations of professing Christians today are saturated with a kind of dead goodness, an ethical respectability which has its motivational roots in the flesh rather than in the illuminating and enlivening control of the Holy Spirit. In 2 Timothy 3 Paul describes this surface righteousness which does not spring from faith and the Spirit’s renewing action, but from religious pride and conditioned conformity to tradition, as a form of godliness which denies its power. It goes without saying that many congregations which are built upon such counterfeit piety are Evangelical in name,
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