TaylorOtwell
Puritan Board Junior
I have heard that, at least later in his life, A.W. Pink totally forsook attending any visible church. Is this true? If so, could someone please provide a reference and quotation for this?
If this is indeed the case, where did Pink go wrong in his thinking regarding the visible church, if at all?
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Here is an excerpt from Pink's "Call to Separation" that shows some of his thoughts on the matter:
"Be ye not unequally yoked together." This applies first to our religious or ecclesiastical connections. How many Christians are members of so-called "churches," where much is going on which they know is at direct variance with the Word of God—either the teaching from the pulpit, the worldly attractions used to draw the ungodly, and the worldly methods employed to finance it or the constant receiving into its membership of those who give no evidence of having been born again. Believers in Christ who remain in such "churches" (?) are dishonoring their Lord. Should they answer: "Practically all the churches are the same, and were we to resign, what could we do? We must go somewhere on Sundays," such language would show they are putting their own interests before the glory of Christ. Better stay at home and read God's Word, than fellowship that which His Word condemns.
If this is indeed the case, where did Pink go wrong in his thinking regarding the visible church, if at all?
** Edit **
Here is an excerpt from Pink's "Call to Separation" that shows some of his thoughts on the matter:
"Be ye not unequally yoked together." This applies first to our religious or ecclesiastical connections. How many Christians are members of so-called "churches," where much is going on which they know is at direct variance with the Word of God—either the teaching from the pulpit, the worldly attractions used to draw the ungodly, and the worldly methods employed to finance it or the constant receiving into its membership of those who give no evidence of having been born again. Believers in Christ who remain in such "churches" (?) are dishonoring their Lord. Should they answer: "Practically all the churches are the same, and were we to resign, what could we do? We must go somewhere on Sundays," such language would show they are putting their own interests before the glory of Christ. Better stay at home and read God's Word, than fellowship that which His Word condemns.
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