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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