The Church Is Under Attack.
Often we hear believers say the church is under attack, the church is being divided etc. Sadly, the real attack on the church is the least discerned; it's systemic, endemic, very subtle with no hostility but hospitality in the arms of infidelity, and it is WORLDLINESS. As early as the days of the early church, it was worldly wisdom which crept into the church in Corinth, that bred divisions & religious hero worship even along the lines of affiliations to true ministers of the gospel of Christ, and it led to such false assertions as: "I am of Paul, I am of Apollos, I am of Cephas" - a declaration of membership and belonging to ministers instead of Christ, who is the one Head over all & uniting all members as the one from whom the entire body is derived & the one all is to grow into, unto the measure of the stature of his fullness. This very subtle and sinister attack of worldly wisdom against the church has been on for centuries and has waxed & prospered gr...