In this article, an excerpt from a work titled The Imitation of Christ is followed by comments concerning what it really means to have Jesus Christ “in your heart.” That cliché is commonplace today, but it means a whole lot more than Pretenders could ever imagine.
This article contains a reprint of Charles Finney’s article “Self Deceivers,” from his work Lectures to Professing Christians. In it, he looks at some of the lies “Christians” believe in order to delude themselves. People today don’t even stop to consider the possibility that they might be believing a lie. Charles Finney was the single most effective nineteenth-century Evangelist.
The answers in this issue begin by curtly dismissing the ridiculous notion that “be nice to everyone” is what defines a true Christian. One rejects the notion that anger is a sin by pointing out the fact that the Apostle Paul plainly said, “be angry and {yet} do not sin.” Another ridicules the claim that the true Gospel is rapidly gaining converts around the world. The last concludes by stating the appearance of the Antichrist will be brought about by the interaction of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism—especially the commingling of Jewish and Christian beliefs concerning the Messiah in messianic Jewish churches.