Gairney Bridge

In the course of completing a project for a class I’m taking (the class is called “Innovative Educational Ministries” — a better course, though, might be “How to Be Innovative without Being Postmodern” as that, it seems, might be the real challenge in today’s culture), I was attempting to find some articles addressing the subject. I was looking in the archives at Modern Reformation, where I found the following quote in the introduction of by Michael Horton:

What would things look like if Satan actually took over a city? The first frames in our imaginative slide show probably depict mayhem on a massive scale: Widespread violence, deviant sexualities, pornography in every vending machine, churches closed down and worshipers dragged off to City Hall. Over a half-century ago, Donald Grey Barnhouse, pastor of Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church, gave his CBS radio audience a different picture of what it would look like if Satan took control of a town in America. He said that all of the bars and pool halls would be closed, pornography banished, pristine streets and sidewalks would be occupied by tidy pedestrians who smiled at each other. There would be no swearing. The kids would answer “Yes, sir,” “No, ma’am,” and the churches would be full on Sunday … where Christ is not preached.

Even though I won’t be able to use this particular article, those were pretty staggering words. May all of the godly men our Lord has raised to the pulpit ministry be faithful in their preaching of the grace-filled salvation that is found in Jesus Christ and Him alone.