Today's encouragement comes from Acts 19:32, where we read these words:
"Some therefore cried one thing and some another, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together."Wherever the true gospel of Christ’s free grace is preached, one of three re-sults accrue: 1) regenerative faith in Jesus, leading to a healthy church life; 2) hypocritical "belief," leading to eventual apostasy; or 3) (as here/above), plain old confusion.
. . . Today, many professing Christians are thoroughly befuddled. Some have replaced baptism, with a "christian" tee shirt, (or "christian perfume"). This is a sad state of affairs; but it is not one that can unsettle the faithful church. Though there will always be a cacophony of noises in this fallen world, the clarion call of the gospel of grace will always go forth from Christ-appointed ministers of His church.
[Puritan quote of the day: "It is a preposterous course, instead of obeying the gospel, and studying to be found in Christ, to be inquisitive whether we were elected from eternity or not.” —William Lyford, in "The Instructed Christian"]
