if this is dull ...

[Mike Abendroth]

 "Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as “a bad press.”  We are constantly assured that the churches  are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine – “dull dogma,” as people call it.  The fact is the precise opposite.  It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness.  The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man – and the dogma is the drama . . . This is the dogma we find so dull – this terrifying drama of which God is the victim and the hero.  If this is dull, then what, in Heaven’s name, is worthy to be called exciting?  The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore – on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe.  It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.  We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certifying Him “meek and mild,” and recommended Him as a fitting household per for pale curates and pious old ladies. . . . . Now, we may call that doctrine exhilarating or we may call it devastating; we may call it revelation or we may call it revelation or we may call it rubbish; but if we call id dull, then words have no meaning at all [Dorothy Sayers, Creed or Chaos?" (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949), 3.] 

Thanks.

 

Mike Abendroth

www.nocompromiseradio.com 

www.bbcchurch.org 

http://www.youtube.com/nocompromise90 

Thomas Watson, "[Jesus] alone is the Prince of Preachers.  He alone is the best of expositors."