{"id":13366,"date":"2021-04-23T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=13366"},"modified":"2021-05-04T22:21:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T22:21:13","slug":"may-we-never-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=13366","title":{"rendered":"May We Never Rest\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1\u00a0<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">UNTIL every soul on this earth in our age has heard the pure Gospel at least once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">UNTIL we have made every effort possible to relieve the human misery we see around us every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">UNTIL every member of the church has truly rebelled and revolted against Satan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">AS LONG AS our own community scarcely knows that we plead for the complete return to New Testament Christianity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">WHILE we continue to excuse the purchase of multiplied luxuries at the expense of the Great Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">AS LONG AS injustice, hate, pride, and prejudice stalk our nation and the church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">AS LONG AS there are those in the body of Christ who have given up on the ideals of restoring the church of the New Testament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">WHILE there is even <b><i>one<\/i><\/b> member of the Lord\u2019s body here who is uncommitted and unfaithful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">AS LONG AS the newsstands and theatres of our city are flooded with corrupting pornography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">UNTIL we have the very best Bible school program that we are capable of having, regardless of the cost and effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">AS LONG AS 45% of our people treat Bible classes as optional and 25% consider morning worship as dispensable and 60% consider evening worship and Wednesday evening Bible classes unimportant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it was published in the December 12, 1971, edition of <em>The Christian Reminder, <\/em>weekly bulletin of the Johnson Street Church of Christ, San Angelo, Texas, of which I was editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0 page.] UNTIL every soul on this earth in our age has heard the pure Gospel at least once. 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