Originality
“…independence such as Paul showed in his religion is only what every Christian must be able to claim, if his Christianity is to be real and vital and significant. Second-hand piety has always been the Church’s bane and a lamentable source of weakness to the Christian cause. Indeed, we might put it in the form of a paradox and say that the more original a man’s Christianity is, and the more the personal equation enters with it, the more likely is it to be true to Christ. This is what we see in Paul. It is ‘my Gospel,’ as he says; and just in the degree in which it is his own, it is more than his own—it is Christ’s”
(James Stewart, A Man in Christ, 278)
Thanks Dan for the quote!
