A Lesson to be Learned - Broadbent

[Eli Brayley]

"The first three centuries of the church's history prove that no eartly power can crush it. It is invincible to attacks from without. The witnesses of its suferings and even its persecutors, become its converts and it grows more rapidly than it can be destroyed. The following period of nearly two hundred years shows that the union of the Church and the State, even when the powers of the mightiest Empire are put into the Church's hands , do not enable her to save the State from destruction, for, in abandoning the position which her very name implies, of being "called out" of the world and of seperation to Christ, she loses the power that comes from subjection to her Lord , exchanging it for an earthly authority that is fatal to herself."

-- E.H. Broadbent (The Pilgrim Church, page 51)

[4him]

I read this book, 'The Pilgrim Church' a while back and it was a blessing to learn that in the time between the early church and the Reformation, the Church of Christ was alive and thriving, even though many Christians were found in small groups here and there, these groups bearing names that would not be well known to most people living in the 21st century.

In Jesus,
John