Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

Could it be that we are actually making the
proud claim that Christ charges on us in His
Laodicean message? His diagnosis is on target. The
Lord's servant has often said that when we do
"buy" the "gold-tried-in-the-fire" kind of
righteousness by faith, the gospel commission will
be speedily finished like fire going in the stubble.
That hasn't really happened yet—not with 900
million Muslims and nearly a billion Hindus still
unreached, plus many millions more professed
Christians and others.
Here we come to the great continental divide in
Adventism. At this point we turn to one side or the
other. Either Jesus is wrong when He says we are
"poor" and "wretched" and we are "rich" as we
claim; or we are indeed "poor" and He has put His
finger on our most sensitive plague spot of
leadership pride. His words were a stone of
stumbling and a rock of offense to the leaders of
the ancient Jews; are they that to us as well?
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