material benefits were never valued in the apostolic age for their own sake, they were never regarded as substitutes for spiritual things. That lesson needs to be learned. Social betterment, though important, is insufficient; it must always be supplemented by God’s unspeakable gift,
J Gresham Machen, New Testament, ed, John Cook, pp 345, 346
Early Christianity in Britain
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When I was in Aber last my prospective sympathetic Mike Iliff (our kids get
married in June) recommended a book to me - Early Christianity. The
backbone ...
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