The Christian is at once the narrowest and the broadest of men. He becomes a man of one Book and one Person. And yet "all things are yours." So he breaks all bonds and barriers. He is a man of one Book, and of all books; of one Faith, and then or all fiaths; of one Person, and then of all persons; of one Interest, and then of all interests; of one Kingdom and then of all kingdoms.
One compass point is on Christ and the other sweeps the horizon. To sweep the horizon without having a point on Christ turns out to be Theosophy. to hold one point on Christ without sweeping the horizon turns out to be narrow conservatism. To have both a single pointedness and an all-inclusiveness is to be a Christian. If you belong to Christ, then all things are yours-- you are at once tha narrowest and the broadest man in the world.
--E. Stanley Jones, Victorious Living
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