HOTHOUSE CHRISTIANS HAVE NO ROOT
Most Christians in North America are “hothouse Christians” who bloom as long as they are kept in a protected and carefully controlled environment far from fear, distress, or persecution.” God forbid that it should ‘cost’ us something to speak the name of Jesus.” But time and again, we have seen that if you take hothouse Christians out of their protected environment and put them into the real world where the wind of adversity blows and the rain of sorrow falls; if they have to endure the hot sun and the drought it brings, then they discover that they never developed a root system in the hothouse. So they wither and say, “I’m just not cut out for this!” God has dealt with me to the point where I have been forced to redefine some of my criteria for what it means to be “saved.” If it takes the “perfection of environment” to prove the presence of God in your…
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