Writing earlier this century, Professor John Murray diagnosed a main issue facing the church: "There is no [denying] the fact that the situation in which we are placed today is one of peculiar gravity. There is ... the intense secularism of the man of today. It is the challenge of the secularized mind, and the supposed irrelevance [of the historical gospel], that have constrained the leading exponents of today's Protestantism to reconstruct the gospel so that it will be relevant. This is the capital sin of our generation."
Murray goes on, "But the question for us is: how are we, holding to the sufficiency of Scripture, going to meet the secularism, or whatever else the attitude may be, of this modern man?"
In other words, what is the church to do in the face of the increasing compromise of the word of God? The answer John Murray gives? Proclaim the word of God in all its majesty and fullness!
"If Scripture is the revelation of the gospel, then it is this revelation in all its fullness, richness, wisdom, and power, that must be applied to man in whatever situation he is to be found. We must bring forth from its inexhaustible treasures, in exposition, proclamation, and application, what is the wisdom and power of God for man. There will then be commanding relevance, for it will be the message from God in the unction and power of the Spirit."
"The word of God is living and active and sharper than a double-edged sword" (Hebrews 4:12).
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