Ministério 9 Marcas Brasil

  Do you know what the enormous tragedy of the evangelical movement is today? Not to see or perceive the fundamental necessity, constitutive of divine grace. This becomes a salient historical and temporal feature of the church in apostasy and its rejection of grace as an eschatological anticipation of Christ's parousia: 17 And yet you say, 'I am rich, I have gained much riches, and I need nothing else.' Yet you do not recognize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked! (Rev. 3:17). Commenting on this repulsion, divine grace, which marks an unprecedented spiritual apathy, William Tyndale (1494-1536) pointed out: We are as it were asleep in such profound blindness that we cannot see or feel in what misery, servitude and turpitude we are (Tyndale-2010). This beautiful description illustrates with vivid colors the feeling that would mark our post-Christian era with uniqueness, a deep intoxicating self-sufficiency that would make us that would obscure the unders...