Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

witness to the church. Above the conflicting din of
present-day voices, we are told that He will see to
it that His message comes through loud and clear:
Amid the confusing cries, "Lo, here is Christ!
Lo, there is Christ!" will be borne a special
testimony, a special message of truth appropriate
for this time (Ellen G. White, Seventh-day
Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7, page 984).
Ellen White has bemoaned our constant
tendency to put fallible human beings between
Christ and ourselves. Note how in one short
paragraph she tells us of this idolatry no less than
five times:
It has been Satan's determined purpose to
eclipse the view of Jesus, and lead men to look to
man, and trust to man, and be educated to expect
help from man. For years the church has been
looking to man, and expecting much from man, but
not looking to Jesus (Testimonies to Ministers,
page 93; 1896; emphasis supplied).
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