“The formal Christian is a man who knows enough about Christianity to spoil the world for him . . . . He has enough ‘Christianity’ to spoil everything else, but not enough to give him real happiness, peace and joy and abundance of life. I think such people are the most pathetic people in the world. Our Lord certainly says they are the most useless people in the world. They do not function as worldings or as Christians. They are nothing, neither salt nor light, neither one thing nor the other.” -- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Christianity a la carte is just enough to ruin your appetite, but not enough to satisfy your hunger. It is useless. It does not save you from the allure of the world or the wrath of God. It does not possess potency enough to quicken, only dispassion enough to kill. A la carte Christianity is an inoculation. It gives you just enough of something to keep you from getting all of it. It introduces a synthetic, controlled version for the sake of preventing the invasion of the pure, dangerous version.
Titus 1:15-16
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
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