NEVER ESCAPE NOTICE
Local churches which are respected and even attended by “the public” — interpreted as people who under different circumstances would not feel obliged to attend church at all – – are often found to be those where, on a Christian judgment, the gospel seems to be most faithfully preached. Such churches may invite and suffer temporary periods of unpopularity — by standing up for West Indian immigrants, say, or refusing indiscriminate baptism. But on the whole, the storms are weathered by churches and ministers, whose interest in the community and presentation of the faith [are] alert and genuine. Even so, the Church has every excuse for getting itself disliked: none at all for escaping notice. From A Future for the Free Churches? by Christopher Driver
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