We must not suppose that if we succeeded in making everyone nice we
should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their
own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as
desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world.
C.S. Lewis
Someone has described the church services of American Christianity as a nice man standing in front of nice people, telling them that God calls them to be nicer. But if the Christian faith is about being nicer, it becomes moralism; and in that case, Buddhism will probably be of more help than biblical Christianity.
Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom, pg. 83
When niceness is the goal the Church has lost the gospel, and is no different that any self help group. There are plenty of lost people sitting in Churches but doggone it at least there nice!
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