Mmm… Law abiding…? Mmm… God fearing…? Mmm… Negative…? Mmm… Would be great to share a positive, uplifting message occasionally (Romans 8:7)?
The quote above was an email sent to me from a radio showlistener just this last week.
Before we begin, let me put this quote by Leonard Ravenhill in “contrast” to the email above to contrast the goodness of God with our rebellion.
“The early church was married to poverty, prisons, and persecutions. Today “The Church is married to prosperity, personality and popularity.”
Webster’s 1828 definition of "contrast":
To set in opposition two or more figures of a like kind, with a view to show the difference or dissimilitude, and to manifest the superior excellence of the one by the inferiority of the other, or to exhibit the excellence of the one and the defects of the other in a more striking view; as, to contr ...
