Take a leaf from a branch, lay it
carefully aside and watch! Slowly the color fades, the leaf goes limp, curls up,
and dies!
Take a fish out of a lake, lay it
carefully on the sand and watch! Frantically it twists, struggles, gradually weakens, and
then quivers and dies!
Take a Christian away from the
fellowship and worship of the church, let him remain at home on the Lord's Day, and watch!
Gradually he will stop praying, misses the Lord's Supper, he frets about questionable
activities that keep him from assembling with the saints. Soon there are too many
hypocrites in the church, the church is always asking for money, and finally he takes his
stand against Christianity, and dies!