I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.
I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.
The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.
