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E v e r y s o o f t e n , a Bible teacher receives a serious letter from a clear-thinking Christian who has done some real soul-searching with regard to his (or her) relationship to the church. Just recently, such a letter came to my attention containing a severe indictment of today’s Christendom, yet voiced in a constructively- critical manner. The writer, who will remain anony mous, asks some pointed questions which we believe all thinking Christians would do well to ask—and to which we might all seek some answers. Our correspondent says “ the church in recent years has been so busy reinterpreting the Bible to make it applicable to modern man that we’ve almost eradicated its simple message. We have become an ‘ intellectual’ church. We hold study groups on Robinson’s Honest to God and similar works which suggest ‘demythologizing’ the Bible. Perhaps this may be necessary in our chang ing world. But, where does it end?”
b y (Hsüibojd *Mr. Ehrenstein is Director of Biblical Studies for the Evangelical Foundation, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., and teacher o f three weekly Bible classes in New York, Philadelphia and Washington. THE KING'S BUSINESS
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