[In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon]@TWC D-Link bookIn His Steps CHAPTER Twenty 12/15
I may have erred in not stirring their deeper life.
Caxton, my friend, I have spoken my inmost thought to you.
Shall I go back to my people next Sunday and stand up before them in my large city church and say: 'Let us follow Jesus closer; let us walk in His steps where it will cost us something more than it is costing us now; let us pledge not to do anything without first asking: 'What would Jesus do ?' If I should go before them with that message, it would be a strange and startling one to them.
But why? Are we not ready to follow Him all the way? What is it to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean to imitate Him? What does it mean to walk in His steps ?" The Rev.Calvin Bruce, D.D., of the Nazareth Avenue Church, Chicago, let his pen fall on the table.
He had come to the parting of the ways, and his question, he felt sure, was the question of many and many a man in the ministry and in the church.
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