Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Death of Another Salesman

Accompanying this devastating attack upon the Scriptures came a scramble for power. Inaugural addresses at seminaries and universities become predictable - the conservatives protesting that the Scriptures were being plundered, and the liberals hailing the victory over superstition. Not accidentally, therefore, as the decade of the sixties dawned and the culture began to convulse against authority, Christian Century published a poem by Thomas C. Arthur entitled, “Death of Another Salesman”

Sooner or later the preacher

Wakes up to the fact

That he can't save everybody.

He may even think

That after all,

There is such a division

As the Elect.

If he goes on thinking

He may come to realize

That the "Elect" are inclined

To agree with him.

If by some chance

He contemplates still further,

He may find

That some of the damned

Have a point.

Then he may wonder

If anyone at all can be saved!

He might even count himself

Among the great mass of the Lost.

He will then flounder about,

Snatching at slivers of truth.

He may even discover

That he can't swim.

Extracted from Ravi Zacharias’ Deliver Us From Evil.

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