Attempts To Kill the Church

Sparky Anderson, a manager of several different American professional baseball teams continued a long American tradition of malapropisms when he said, "We try every way we can do to kill the game, but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it."

What he said makes no sense grammatically, but it does make sense.  There is something about the game of baseball (my favorite competitive sport) which survives problems within the baseball community and criticisms from outside.  I believe that the unifying factor in baseball is the love for the game, for the team comraderie, for the level of artistic skill needed to successfully play the game.  It becomes an all-consuming passion for some.

Christians understand the same thing about their community and the Bible.  Christianity has withstood, and even prospered and matured, under severe intellectual challenges, criticisms and outright persecutions.  We have also fought, sometimes bitterly, over seemingly trivial matters and over some foundational and non-negotiable matters.  One of the strongest criticisms non-believers offer is the question of why there is no true Christian unity, no unanimity of belief.  (They totally fail to understand the concept of The Church, existing within the various religious traditions, but not contained exclusively in any of them.  This is the Remnant, those few who truly share the Mind of Christ, those traveling on the straight and narrow path.)

The reason the Church endures is because it is of God.  Who can stand up against His glory and power?  Who can possibly cause any damage to His People, His Word, and His Church?  

The link below is a forceful declaration about the futility of trying to harm God's Bible (and also His Church).

http://www.grmi.org/Richard_Riss/evidences/11survival.html