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Losing Touch with the Living God: The Message of Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

For many people, their Christian life has become indifferent. Faith has lost its edge and the great enthusiasm which followed their conversion has gradually cooled. The Christian life has become comfortable and easy. It almost seems as if they are losing touch with the living God. While this may be a description of ourselves and even of the church today, it was the state of Israel at the time of...

ways, it somehow spreads throughout a congregation and the church becomes dead and formal and, dare we say it, hypocritical. What is the gist of the book of Malachi? It addresses this problem of spiritual degeneration, this fossilizing of faith. It is a book where God’s people Israel are in the dock and God is charging them and accusing them concerning their spiritual decline. Throughout the book there is a repeated refrain, a repeated structure in the Lord’s words (1:2; 1:6–8; 3:8 etc). The Lord
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