What Are You Going to Do About It? by Rev. Benjamin Glaser
One of my favorite quotes is by D.L. Moody, and you are probably aware of it. One time a lady criticized his way of preaching the gospel and doing evangelism, and after some questioning this older woman admitted that she hadn't actually ever done much of the later. Moody responded with, "I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it." The world of the late 19th century was a cesspool of Sabbath desecration, antinomianism, and growing sexual licentiousness. The Church was giving itself over to the doctrines of hell found in Darwinism, Freud, and Wellhausen. There was even an election controversy ravaging the United States. And yet the cultured smart people were chastising men like Moody and other evangelists for having the audacity to call out the world for its wickedness. They didn't like "how" they went about it. Wanted them to be winsome and oratorically pretty, so the smart people talked ...