The Lord's Work in the Lord's Way

Here is a passage from Francis Schaeffer's book No Little People. Don't forget to run right out and buy this book...

From the sermon entitled: "The Lord's Work in the Lord's Way":

The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, not the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, not the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous, but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually or corporately, tending to do the Lord's work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.