This is, in essence, a reversion to the age of tribal deities, and makes God too small. When we whittle God down to our sectarian size we end up actually worshipping ourselves. The voice of the party becomes the voice of God. In such thinking God is made to like what we like, and also to hate those whom we hate. There is an uneasiness over the tendency to compartmentalize men and to fragment personality.
Salvation pertains only to a part of man rather than to the whole being.
It consists primarily of keeping men out of hell rather than keeping hell out of men. And many who are thoroughly convinced that they will escape hell because they meet behind the right signboard on Sunday morning, have hearts that are filled with unloveliness and animosity. The perceptive saints believe that every thought, intent, and act of the man in Christ, rendered in reverence for this divine-human relationship is worship. They are recapturing the meaning of salvation which is to make whole, and they know that it relates to the unshattered personality, and has to do with the physical, mental, moral and spiritual aspects of human nature. A group which regularly gathers to employ mass psychology in only one of these aspects, and which equates divine election with remaining in good graces with the group, can never truly represent the Christ to modern man.