The Church in the Cradle
“...let us go on...”
The early Hebrew Christians were exhorted to “go on,” not to “go back.” The Church of today is mostly living in the past. What could be a glorious present is sacrificed for the memories of a golden past. Memories can be blessed and beneficial, as long as we do not forget they are, at best, just memories. We do not need so much a resurrection of a dead past as a revival of living in the present. It’s not an encore by the old players of the last act, but the curtain going up on the opening night of a new act with fresh talent.
Remember the “infant” Church was just that—infant. It has matured through the years. Shadowy truths have had light shone upon them. And it has grown geographically to be universal as well as local. Why long for yesterday’s babe in the cradle, when you have a mature adult that has the potential and means to function so much more capably than when in its infancy?
“Infant” and “primitive” denote a beginning; but not a place to stay.
by an Aged Saint