The Unhewn Stone Altar: Simplicity and Christ's Sufficiency
Exodus 20:25 forbids fashioning the Lord's altar with hewn stone or any tool of human craft. This prohibition teaches three vital truths about worship. First,...
This is historical examples on simplicity in faith and christ as mediator, drawing on Exodus 20:25.
Exodus 20:25 forbids fashioning the Lord's altar with hewn stone or any tool of human craft. This prohibition teaches three vital truths about worship. First, ritualism is not necessary for genuine worship. The rough altar of unhewn stones serves as adequately as the temple where wealth lavishes contributions and art exhausts its genius. True worship is spirit and life, not mere form or ceremonial service.…
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