Ten Indictments Against The Modern Church (Video)

Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Father, I come before you in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ. Lord, you know all things. They are all before you like an open book. Who can hide their heart from your presence, from your eye?

The deeds of the most clever men are exposed before you. Your omniscience knows no bounds, and if it were not for grace, I would be of all men most terrified. But there is grace, abounding and glorious, poured out upon the weakest of men and abounding to your glory.

Father, I praise you and I worship you, and I thank you for all that you are and all that you have done. And there is no one like you in the heavens or the earth or under the earth. You are King and there is no other.

You are Savior and you share that glory with no one. Father, this night, you know me and my great need of grace. Why am I here except that you call the weakest among men, the most ignoble among brothers, and that by your grace oftentimes the lesser teaches the greater?

That is always my case, and I praise you, I worship you. Father, help us tonight to the wind with eloquence, to hell with a brilliant intellect, Father. But that truth go forward, that men be changed, that the state of your church be more glorious.

I pray for grace upon grace and mercy upon mercy for myself and for the hearers who are present here. Help us, oh God, and we will be helped and we will boast in that help. In Jesus' name, amen. It is a great privilege for me to be here this evening, an astounding privilege to stand here before you and to speak about things such as revival, reformation, the working of God among his people and among men.

Revival Must Be Joined to Biblical Reformation

But tonight I'm going to share with you an indictment, an indictment. But it is an indictment of hope. As I was praying through what I should do in this series of meetings, I came to a great conclusion, a great burden that was laid upon my heart.

We need revival, we need an awakening, but we cannot simply expect the Holy Spirit to come down and clean up all the mess we've made. We have clear direction from the word of God with regard to what he has done through Christ, how he expects us to live, how he expects us to order his church.

And it does little good for men to cry out for extra biblical manifestations when biblical principle is violated all around us. I want you to know this, there is little need for the devil and evil men to oppose a man praying for revival unless he is also laboring for reformation.

We have been given truth and we cannot simply do what is right in our own eyes and then expect the Holy Spirit to come down and bless our labors. As we look into the Old Testament, we see that Moses is given very, very detailed explanation how to build the temple.

Now, was that given for Moses' sake or for the church's sake? I think that what is being explained here is that God is specific in his will and that we are not to presume that we can take the smallest detail and ignore it.

Now, I know that I am a frail man. And I know that I am buffeted by many weaknesses, but I have an indictment and I can't call it my indictment because who am I to indict anyone? And I dare not call it God's indictment, for how can I presume upon his name?

But I will say this, as I look around at the church and compare her to Scripture, I see that there are certain things that must change. I am not Martin Luther, and this is not 95 declarations nailed to Wittenberg's door, but this is a burden on my heart and I must share it.

I must share it. Now, let me say this, what I'm going to say will anger some of you. But let me warn you, it may be true that you will be able to accuse me of arrogance. It may be true that you do not like my delivery.

I have many times been arrogant and I have many times delivered truth in a wrong way, but don't allow that to be an excuse for you. The question is, what I'm saying, is it true? Whether it's delivered through a faulty messenger or no.

Others of you will be rejoicing in what you hear and you'll want to say amen and maybe pump your arms, but don't do that. Because all of us bear a measure of guilt. And if you have attained to some spiritual state, then I would say what my brother has said, what do you have that you have not received?

And if you have received it, why do you boast? Would it not be better to worship God in humility if you're a younger minister? I do not want you to get caught up in these truths and take them back and storm your church without love.

I would make one suggestion. See to it that your knees are bleeding. Before you begin any sort of reformation. And if you are an older minister serving the Lord for many, many years. I beg you not to be arrogant.

An old, foolish king can learn from the weakest of his servants. And also, I beg you this, have the courage to change everything, even if it is the last day of your life. At least you can go into glory knowing that you attempted a reformation that was biblical.

And I'll say this as a warning to the older men and listen to me carefully. I know the the admonition in First Timothy, chapter five of the way I am to address you, and so I address you this way. But there is a great awakening going on in this country and not only in this country, in Europe, where I have I have been and in South America and many other places.

I see young men going back to the rock from which we were cut. They are reading Spurgeon and Whitfield, they're still listening to Ravenhill and Martin Lloyd-Jones and Tozer and Wesley, and it's a great, incredible movement just because popular media and Christianity today hasn't discovered what's going on.

I want you to know that I would have never dreamed 15 years ago that I would see the awakening I'm seeing, not through my ministry, but as I go to different places and see what God is doing without any of our ministries, whether it's Holland, a thousand young men declaring things have to change, crying out all night in prayer for the power of God and the truth of Scripture, or South America recognizing that they've been so influenced by psychology and all sorts of superficial techniques coming from America with regard to evangelism and now weeping and broking are going back and evangelizing their churches or the inner city of the United States, where I have sat up at times till two and three in the morning discussing theology with young African-Americans in the hood whom God is going to raise up to do more preaching than anyone will ever be able to imagine on this day.

There is an awakening and I'm going to say this with tenderness, most men over 40 don't even have a clue about it. Many of the young people who are turning back to the old men and the old ways and the truths that have brought awakening time and time again in this world, most of these young men are quite young and they'll go to their pastors, they'll go to their leaders and say, look at this, what we've discovered, look what happened in Wales, look what happened in Africa, look at this and look at that and look at this teaching.

It's absolutely amazing. And most of them will either turn it away or say it's nothing any different than what I've been preaching for 25 years, when in fact, it is completely different than what they have been preaching in 25 years.

And so we need to be very, very careful. To understand that God is doing work and he who began a good work will finish it. Many people have the idea that they're going to pray in a revival and other people say revival will come whether you pray or not, I'm not in either one of those camps.

But I know this. When I see men and women and young people all over the world praying for an awakening to me, that is the first fruits of revival. And I can count on the fact that he who gave those first fruits will bring in the full harvest.

Indictment One: Denying the Sufficiency of Scripture

Now, I want to look at 10 indictments, if we have time. Things that I believe that we must change. First of all, the first indictment, a practical denial of the sufficiency of scripture, especially my denomination, a practical denial of the sufficiency of scripture.

Second Timothy 315 and on says, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you wisdom that leads to salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training and righteousness so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

Over the last several decades, there has been a mighty battle with regard to the inspiration of scripture. Now, some of you have not been a part of that battle, but many of us in more liberal denominations most certainly have a battle for the Bible.

But there's only one problem. When you come to believe as a people that the Bible is inspired. You've only fought half the battle. Because the question is not merely is the Bible inspired, is it inerrant?

The major question following that that must be answered, is the Bible sufficient or do we have to bring in every so-called social science and cultural study in order to know how to run a church? That is a major question.

Social sciences, in my opinion, have taken precedent over the word of God in such a way that most of us can't even see it. It has so crept into our church, our evangelism and our missiology that you can barely call what we're doing Christian anymore.

Psychology, anthropology, sociology have become primary in primary influences in the church. Several years ago, many years ago, when I was in seminary, I remember a professor walked in and he started drawing footprints.

On the blackboard. And as he marched them across the blackboard, then he turned to all of us and said only this. Aristotle. Is walking through the halls of this institution. Beware, for I hear his footsteps more clearly than those of the Apostle Paul.

And the team of inspired men who were with him and even the Lord Jesus Christ himself. We have come to believe that a man of God can deal in certain tiny areas in the life of the church. But when it really gets tough, we need to go to the social experts.

That's an absolute lie. It says here in Scripture that the man of God may be equipped, adequate, equipped for every good work. What does Jerusalem have to do with Rome and what do we have to do? With all these modern day social sciences.

That were actually created as a protest against the word of God. And why is it that evangelism and missions and so-called church growth is more shaped by the anthropologist, the sociologist and the Wall Street student who is up on every cultural trend?

All the activity in our church must be based upon the word of God, all the activity and missions upon the word of God. Our missionary activity, our church activity, everything we do ought to flow from the theologian and the exegete.

The man who opens up his Bible and only has one question, what is thy will, O God? We are not to send out questionnaires to carnal people to discover what kind of church they would attend. A church ought to be seeker friendly, but the church ought to recognize there's only one seeker.

His name is God. And if you want to be friendly to someone, if you want to accommodate someone, accommodate him and his glory, whether it is rejected by everyone else, we are not called to build empires.

We are not called to be accepted. We are called to glorify God. And if you want to the church, you want the church to be something other than a peculiar people, then you want something God does not want.

I want you to listen to Isaiah just for a moment. Chapter eight, listen to what he says when they say to you, consult the mediums and the spiritist who whisper and mutter. This is a perfect, a perfect.

Definition, or at least illustration of the social sciences and the church growth gurus and everything else, because every two or three years, all their major theories change, not only on what is a man or how you fix him, but what is a church and how you make it grow every two or three years.

There is another fad coming down the line of what can make your church into something super in the eyes of the world. Just recently, one of the greatest or most well-known church growth experts said that he discovered that he was entirely wrong on all his theory.

But instead of turning them to scripture on his knees, broken and weeping, he goes out to find another theory. They give no clear word. It says here in Isaiah, should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Should we as churchmen, as preachers, as pastors, as Christians, should we go out and consult the spiritually dead on behalf of those whom the Holy Spirit has made alive? Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

Indictment Two: Ignorance of the Character of God

The second indictment, an ignorance. Of God, at times I am asked, Brother Paul, please come and do a week long series on the attributes of God. And many times I will say this, I'm well, brother, have you thought this through?

So what do you mean if I thought this through? Well, it's quite controversial, the subject that you're putting, you're giving me to go teach in your church. And I say, what do you mean it's controversial?

I mean, it's God. We're Christians. This is a church. What do you mean it's controversial? I said, dear pastor, you listen to me when I begin instructing your people. On the justice of God, the sovereignty of God, the wrath of God, the supremacy of God, the glory of God, you're going to have some of your finest and oldest church members stand up and say something like this, that's not my God, I could never love a God like that because they have a God they have made with their own mind and they love what they have made.

Jeremiah nine, twenty three, twenty four. Thus says the Lord, let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not the rich man boast of his riches, but let him boast of this that he understands and knows me.

Psalms 50, you thought, God speaking, you thought I was just like you. I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes. Now, consider this, you who forget God or I will tear you to pieces and there will be none who delivers.

Now, what is the problem here? There is a lack of the knowledge of God. Many of you possibly think, oh, talking about the attributes of God and theology, it's all high ivory tower stuff that has no practical application.

Listen to you. Listen to yourself speak. Saying the knowledge of God has no practical explanation. Do you know why all your Christian bookstores are filled up with self-help books and five ways to do that and six ways to be godly and 10 ways not to fall?

Because people don't know God. And so they have to be given all sorts of trivial little devices of the flesh to keep them walking as sheep ought to walk. First Corinthians 15, 34, become over minded as you ought and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God.

I speak this to your shame. Why the rampant sinning, even among God's people, a lack of the knowledge of God, of God. Now, let me ask you a question. When was the last time you attended a conference on the attributes of God?

When was the last time as a pastor you taught for a solid year on who God is? How much of all the teaching that goes on in America every week has anything to do with who God is? And then we wonder, isn't it so easy to go with the flow, to just follow everybody else?

And then one day you hear something like this and all of a sudden you go, I can't even remember when anybody taught on the attributes of God. No wonder we are a people as we are to know him. That's what everything's about, that's eternal life and eternal life doesn't begin when you pass through the gates of glory, eternal life begins with conversion, eternal life is to know him.

Do you honestly think you're going to be thrilled about swinging on gates of pearl and walking down streets of gold for an eternity? The reason why you won't lose your mind in eternity is because of this, there is one there who is infinite in glory and you will spend an eternity of eternities tracking him down and you will never get your arms even around the foothill of his mountain.

So many different things you want to know and do in all the books. Get out a book on God, this one, and study it to know him, to know him. Sunday morning, because of all of this, I would submit to you that it would be better not even to have a Sunday morning.

Sunday morning is the greatest hour of idolatry in the entire week of America because people are not worshiping the one true God, the great mass, at least, but are worshiping a God. Formed out of their own heart, by their own flesh, satanic devices and worldly intelligence, they've made a God just like themselves, and he looks more like Santa Claus than he does Yahweh.

Indictment Three: Failure to Address Human Sin

There can be no fear of the Lord among us because there is no knowledge of the Lord among us. Third indictment, a failure to address man's malady. When I look at the book of Romans, which is one of my favorite books of the Bible.

It is not a systematic theology, but if you could say any book in the Bible was a systematic theology, the book of Romans would be the closest. Isn't it amazing that Paul spends the first three chapters of that book seeking to do one thing, bring all men into condemnation?

Bring all men into condemnation, but it is not that condemnation is his great sunum bonum in his theology. It is not his end or his final purpose. It is a means to bring salvation to his readers because men must be brought to a knowledge of self before they surrender self over to God.

Men are made in such a fallen manner now that you must cut away from them absolutely every hope in the flesh before they be brought to God. This is important in everything, but it's especially important in evangelism.

I remember this was I was 21 years old and had just been called to preach, and I walked into an old store where they would sell suits to ministers for half price. They'd been doing it for 50, 60 years.

And I walked in there and I was looking for a suit in Paducah, Kentucky. And all of a sudden the door opened, I heard the bell ring and it closed. There was an old, old man standing there, I never caught his name, but when he walked in, he looked right at me, he said, boy, you've been called to preach, haven't you?

I said, yes, sir. He was an old, old evangelist. He said, you see what that building is right outside this building? I said, yeah. He said, I used to preach there. The spirit of God would come down and souls would be saved.

I said, sir, please tell me about it. He says there wasn't anything like this evangelism today. He said we would preach for two and three weeks and give no invitation to sinful men. We would plow and plow and plow and plow the hearts of men until the spirit of God began to break their hearts.

I said, sir, how did you know when the spirit of God was coming to break their hearts? And he said, well, let me just give you an example. He said many decades ago, I walked into this store to buy a suit, someone had handed me thirty dollars and said, preacher, go buy you a suit tomorrow.

And when I walk through the door, the young clerk taking care of the shop turned around and looked at me and when he looked at me, fell down on the floor and cried out, who can save a wicked man like me?

And I knew that the spirit of God had fallen upon the place. Now, we just walk in and talk to them, give them three exploratory questions and ask them if they want to pray a prayer and ask Jesus to come into their heart.

And we make a twofold son of hell who will never again be open to the gospel because of the religious lie that we as evangelicals have spewed out of our mouth. I'll say something that Leonard Ravenhill used to say, now you understand why I preach in a lot of places once, but that is the truth.

When we treat sin superficially, first of all, we are fighting against the Holy Spirit. And he, when he comes, will convict the world concerning sin. There are very popular preachers today who are more concerned about giving you your best life now than they are eternity.

And they brag about the fact that they do not mention sin in their preaching. I can tell you this. The Holy Spirit has nothing to do with their ministry, lest he be working against it. That would be the only thing.

Why? When a man says he has no ministry dealing with the sin of men, the Holy Spirit does. It is a primary ministry of the Holy Spirit to come and convict the world of sin. And so know this, when you do not deal specifically, passionately, lovingly with men and their depraved condition, the Holy Spirit is nowhere around you.

Also, we are deceivers when we deal with the malady of men lightly. Like shepherds of Jeremiah's day, they have healed the brokenness of my people superficially saying peace, peace, but there is no peace.

We are not only deceivers, but we are immoral, like a doctor who denies his Hippocratic oath because he doesn't want to tell some bad news because he thinks that person will be cross against them, will be angry with them, will be sad.

And so he does not tell them the news most necessary to save their life. I hear preachers today, they say, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't understand, Brother Paul. We're not like the people of the day of John and Charles Wesley.

We are not like the culture that Whitfield addressed or Edwards. We're not as hardy as they are. We're broken. We don't have as much self-esteem. We're feeble. We can't bear such preaching. Listen to me.

Have you ever studied the lives of these men? What they preach, their culture couldn't bear it either. No one has ever been able to bear the preaching of the gospel. They will either turn against it with the fierceness of an animal or they will be converted.

And to give you a thing about us being more feeble and not having the self-esteem, our country and this world is overrun with this disgusting malady of self-esteem. Our greatest problem is that we esteem self more than we esteem God.

We are also thieves. When we do not speak much about sin, we are thieves. I ask you a question this afternoon, this morning, where did all the stars go? Did some cosmic giant come by in a basket and pick them all up and throw them in and carry them someplace else?

Where did all the stars go this morning? They were there, but you couldn't see them. But then the sky grew darker and darker and darker. And as that night turned black as pitch, the stars came out in the fullness of their glory.

When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, his Christ and his cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it's placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity.

She loved much because she's been forgiven much and she knew how much she had been forgiven because she knew how wicked he was. Oh, we're afraid to tell men of their wickedness and they can never love God because of it.

We've robbed them the opportunity. To boast not in self, but to follow the admonition, let him who boasts boast in the Lord. A fourth indictment. An ignorance of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel hardened.

It is gospel ignorant because most of its preachers are. And let me repeat this, the malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood or anything else. It is the so-called evangelical pastor of our day and preacher of our day and evangelist of our day.

That is where the malady is to be found. We we have taken. The glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know with a little superstitious prayer at the end, and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we officially declare them to be born again.

We've traded regeneration for decisionism. First of all, I am amazed after I talk about what I'm going to talk about for just a few minutes here, how many godly believers of 30 and 40 years walking in the faith come up to me with tears saying, brother, I never heard this before in my life.

And yet it is the historical doctrine of redemption, of propitiation, you see, when you talk about the gospel, my dear friend, let's set it up just clearly, the gospel begins with the nature of God and it goes from there to the nature of man and the fallenness thereof.

And it goes from there. Those two great columns of the gospel come to set up for us what should be called and known as in every believer's mouth, the great dilemma. And what is that dilemma? If God is just, he cannot forgive you.

The greatest problem in all of Scripture is this. How can God be just and at the same time the justifier of wicked men? When Scripture throughout the Bible says, especially I'll draw from one text in Proverbs, he who justifies the wicked is an abomination to God.

And yet all our Christian songs boast about how God justifies the wicked. That is the greatest problem. That is the acropolis of the Christian faith. So said Martyn Lloyd-Jones and Charles Spurgeon and anyone else who's read Romans 3.

You see, this is before people. The great problem is if God is truly just and all men are truly wicked, God, to be just, must be a wicked man. But then God, for his own glory. For the great love with which he loved us, sent forth his son who walked on this earth as a perfect man.

And then, according to the plan, the eternal plan of God, he went to that tree. And on that tree, he bore our sin. And he became, standing in the law place of his people, bearing our guilt, he became a curse.

Cursed is every man who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the law so as to perform them. Christ redeemed us from the curse, becoming a curse in our place. So many people have this romantic, powerless view of the gospel.

That the Christ is there hanging on the tree, suffering under the wounds of the Roman Empire. And the father did not have the moral fortitude to bear the suffering of his son, so he turned away. No! He turned away because his son became sin.

And so many, when he's in that garden and he cries out, let this cup pass from me. People speculate, well what was in the cup? Oh, it's the Roman cross, it's the whip, it's the nails, it's all this and all that.

I do not want to take away from the physical sufferings of Christ on that. But the cup was the cup of God, the father's wrath that had to be poured out on the son. Someone had to die, bearing the guilt of God's people.

Forsaken of God by His justice and crushed under the wrath of God, for it pleased the Lord to crush him. I was in Germany a while back, or in a Germanic seminary in Europe a while back. And this book, The Cross of Christ, now it wasn't John Stott's book, it was another.

I pulled it off and began to read it. And this is what it said. The father looked down from heaven at the suffering inflicted upon his son by the hands of men and counted that as payment for our sin. It's heresy.

Now, that physical suffering, that nailing to the tree, that was all part of the wrath of God. It had to be a bloody sacrifice. I'll take nothing away from that. But my friend, if you stop there, you don't have a gospel.

And let me ask you, when the gospel is preached today and when it is shared in personal evangelism today, do you ever hear the things I have just said? Almost never. It is never made clear. That Christ was able to redeem because he was crushed under the justice of God.

And having satisfied divine justice with his death, God is now just and the justifier of the wicked. Gospel reductionism. We wonder why it has no power. We wonder what happened. I'll tell you, when you leave the gospel behind and there is no longer any power in your supposed gospel message, then you've got to go to all the little tricks of the trade that are so prominently used today.

To convert men, and we all know most of them, all of them do not work. My dear friend, let me say this. Several years ago, graduating from seminary, I had to make a decision whether I was going to go for my Ph .D.

God, in order to save my spiritual life, sent me to the middle of the jungles in Peru, as far away from the academic world as I could get. And there I began to realize something. As Spurgeon said, greater men with greater minds than I have approached this doctrine of the second coming, but to no avail.

It is a great and mighty doctrine. He said, I will set myself to this, seeking to comprehend something of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Let me tell you this. This is what, it makes me so angry when men treat the glorious gospel of Christ as though it was a first step into Christianity that only takes about ten minutes of counseling, and after that you go on to greater stuff.

That shows you how pathetic we are in our knowledge of the things of God. My friend, on the day of the second coming, you will understand absolutely everything about the second coming, but you will be an eternity of eternities in heaven, and you will not even begin to comprehend the glory of God in Calvary.

It's what everything is about. Young man, young preacher, listen to me. Go after Him on that tree. What it means. You'll need nothing to build strange fires in your oven. If you only catch a glimpse of what he did on that tree, what he did on that tree.

I love to say this, I've said it a million times. Abraham takes Isaac up that mountain, his son, his only son whom he loved. Do you suppose the Holy Spirit was trying to tell us about something future?

And that son put up no struggle, but laid down. And when that father gave his will into the will of God, he brought that flint knife to pierce his own son's heart. But his hand was stayed and it was told the old man that God had provided a ram.

So many Christians think, oh, what a beautiful end to that story. It's not the end, it's the intermission. Thousands of years later. God, the father, laid his hand upon the brow of his son, his only son, whom he loved and took the flint knife out of the hand of Abraham.

And slaughtered his only begotten son under the full force of wrath. Now, do you know why that little gospel you preach has no power? Because it is no gospel. Get to the gospel, spend your life on your knees, get away from men.

Indictment Four: Ignorance of Regeneration

Study the cross, fourth indictment, an ignorance of the doctrine of regeneration. An ignorance of the doctrine of regeneration. My dear friend, and I'm going to say this bluntly, I know that there are Calvinists here and I know that there are Arminians here.

And I know that there are all sorts of strange animals in between. But I want you to know this, although I am leaning more toward, I guess I call myself a five point Spurgeonist. I want you to know this, Calvinism is not the issue.

No, I'm going to get in a lot of trouble when this goes on the Internet. Calvinism is not the issue. I'll tell you what the issue is, regeneration. And that is why I can have fellowship with Wesley and Ravenhill and Tozer and all the rest.

Because regardless of where they stood on the other issue, they believed that salvation could not be manipulated by the preacher. That it was a magnificent work of the power of Almighty God. And with them, therefore, I stand.

That it was a work of God. There is a greater manifestation of the power of God in the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit than in the creation of the world, of the universe. Because he created the world ex nihilo, out of nothing.

But he recreates a man out of a corrupt mass. It is paralleled with the very resurrection of our Savior from the dead. If you are a preacher. I understand that in preaching there is teachers and preachers and expositors and this and that, and all of them are very necessary for the health of the church.

But you must understand this. As old G. Campbell Morgan, I've heard of him that when he would go up that majestic tower to preach, he would quote to himself, as a lamb led to the slaughter, as a sheep for his shears.

He knew that apart from a magnificent manifestation of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, everything he said would be death. But it is the Spirit that gives life, and in that sense, every one of us who proclaim must proclaim as a prophet.

What do I mean by that? We are always, we are always, Ezekiel, standing in that valley of dry bones, and they are very dry. And we walk out there, and what do we do? We prophesy. We say, hear the word of the Lord.

We know that the wind of God must blow on these slain, or they will not rise again. And when you have fully grasped that in the innermost part of your being, you will no longer give yourself to the manipulation that is so often carried out in the name of evangelism in this country.

You will proclaim the word of God. You will proclaim it. The doctrine of regeneration. Look at the Wesley's. Look what they had to face for a moment. And, my dear Whitfield, what was it? Everybody believed they were Christian.