14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:15 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”17 And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
Are we a moral & virtuous people? No, we have lost our virtue by way of surrendering it for the sake of being politically correct, but it can be restored.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a powerful and effective English Baptist preacher, faced the same modern mega-Church and Church growth proposals advocated today.
The church’s singular failure in recent decades has been the failure to see Christianity as a life system, or worldview, that governs every area of life.
