Thursday, August 10, 2017

Possessing Compassion for the Unconverted

We ought to feel compassion when we think of the wretched state of unconverted souls, and the misery of all men and women who live and die without Christ. No poverty like this poverty! No disease like this disease!
No slavery like this slavery! No death like this: death in idolatry, false religion, and sin! Ask ourselves this: Where is the mind of Christ, if we do not feel for the lost? I lay it down boldly, as a great principle, that the Christianity which does not make a person feel for the state of unconverted people is not the Christianity which came down from heaven hundreds of years ago, and is embalmed in the New Testament. It is a mere empty name.
~ J.C. Ryle
Tract: Athens

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