https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/stringfellow-william/13955/ https://wist.info/stringfellow-william/13955/#respond Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:20:22 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=13955 The inherited churchly institutions in the United States are typically engaged in inducing people to join, support and attend church … in order to worship the church, not to glorify and enjoy God, and in order to enhance some churchly cult, not to esteem and enact the Gospel. The sanction for this appeal is a venerable one — the sale of indulgences. [People] are persuaded that by serving the church, by spending time and money and talent on the church, they can accomplish and exchange for merit and gain a justified status with God.

William Stringfellow (1928–1985) American lay theologian
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