And the numbers may grow of those favouring an undogmatic Christianity which is without apostolic or evangelical substance, but cultivates a certain emulsion of sympathetic mysticism, intuitional belief, and benevolent action. Upon undogmatic, undenominational religion no Church can live. What Christian faith and the Christian Church have to do with is holy spirituality - the spirituality of the Holy Spirit of our Redemption. Each of these great words is now much used to discredit the more positive faith from whose midst John wrote them down. Would Paul ever have written 1 Cor.
Christian faith is neither spirituality nor charity.
Its revelation is the holiness in judgment of the spiritual and loving God. If the Cross is not simply a manner of religion but the object of our religion and the site of revelation, then it stands there above all to effect God's holiness, and not to concentrate man's self-sacrifice. And except in the Cross we have no guarantee for the supreme thing, the divine thing, in God, which is the changeless reality and irresistible sovereignty of His Holy Love. Of that Gospel the Church is the trustee. Do not be too curious whether what they enter is Christianity.