Why has modern Christianity come close to losing the truth that the just shall live by faith?
The modern church has come close to losing this truth because it gets wrapped up in works, materialism, and programs, doing this and that instead of living by faith. Faith is taking God at His Word, not works, religion, or ritual.
Les teaches that Christianity has come close to losing it again because people are all wrapped up in works, materialism, and doing this and that, with a program for this and a program for that. They are losing the whole idea that the just shall live by faith. This truth became the great theme of the Reformation when Martin Luther concluded, while cloistered in a Catholic monastery, that the just shall live by faith—not by works, not by religion, not by ritual, but by faith. Les defines faith as taking God at His Word.