The Strait Gate: A Missing Metaphor in Today's Church - Softcover

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“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” —Jesus Christ (Matthew 7:13–14) The modern church is at a crossroads. The superhighway looks promising, well-paved, broad, and safe. Next to it, the narrow road looks as outmoded as the winding, high-hedged ways that crisscross Wales. Quaint, but uncomfortable—and altogether too risky. But God’s ways are not our ways, nor his thoughts our thoughts. And unless believers rediscover the unsparing lesson of the strait gate, they will discover that the comforts of fellowship with the “many” have been bought at the price of the fires of hell. . . . The burden of this book is that the modern church has been diverted through a wide gate onto a broad way, whose comforts belie a catastrophic destination. If its message is severe, its way seems strait, the reader is asked to consider whether its message is more severe, or its way more strait, than the words of Jesus.

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