I am trying to share this message of old from brother Rick to my concerned friends. Use it as a parallel to our church of today. Happy weekend to all.
"If any one had told us, forty years ago, that we would live to see the day when those professing to be Christians; who claim the Holy Scriptures as their only rule of faith and practice; those under the command, and those who profess to appreciate the meaning of the command to "observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you" would bring any instrument of music into a worshipping assembly, and use it there in worship, we should have repelled the idea as an idle dream. But this only shows how little we knew of what men would do; or how little we saw of the power of the adversary to subvert the purest principles, to deceive the hearts of the simple, to undermine the very foundation of all piety, and turn the very worship of God itself into an attraction for the peeople of the world, an entertainment, or amusement."
Written in 1877 by Benjamin Franklin in Volume 2 of "The Gospel Preacher." (Sent to me by a friend)
Stephen Adebukola Adeyeni
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