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" One of these taking, man-savouring, Satanic devices is to pervert the aims of the Church after this manner of statement and effort, that the main object of the Church to-day is not so much to save individuals out of society, as to save society, not to save souls so much as to save the bodies of men, not to save men out of a community so much as to save men and manhood in the community. The world, not the individual, is the subject of redemption. "
― E.M. Bounds , Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow
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" To “overcome the wicked one,” the world, its love and its things must be abjured. There stands at the threshold of many a church door these words, which in spirit belong to the sacred honour of every soul’s true espousal to Christ: “Dost thou renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow or be led by them?” “I renounce them all,” was the answer solemnly said in the serious hour, and the preacher and the people and our own hearts, if true, said, “Amen.” And Amen let it be now and forever. "
― E.M. Bounds , Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow