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Hypocrites! Get Out of the Church!
I would say to you, members of this church, "Be holy!" Whatever you are, do seek to be holy. And if you will not be holy- if you have a mind to keep your sins- do us the favor to give up your profession. If you will have your sins, and go to hell, you can do it so much better outside the church than you can inside.
I cannot see why you must need to do Christ the double ill-turn to be his enemy, and yet profess to be his friend.
Get out of the church, you that are hypocrites!
– Charles Spurgeon, Our Position and Our Purpose, 2 Cor. 7:1
Are we not all hypocrites? And then, if we are all hypocrites and all hypocrites were to leave the local church, would there be no local church? And if there were no local church, would there truly be one universal Church?
I’ll be the first to cast the stone at my own self…