We urge you to consider this danger: That which we have most to fear is nominal Christianity. We have many who profess the truth who will be overcome because they are not acquainted with the Lord Jesus Christ. They cannot distinguish His voice from that of a stranger. There is to be no dread of anyone being borne down even in a widespread apostasy, who has a living experience in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. If Jesus be formed within, the hope of glory, the illiterate as well as the educated can bear the testimony of our faith, saying, “I know in whom I have believed.” 3SM 399
You have more to fear and dread from nominal Christianity than any other evil. Lt 7, 1882
We have great fears in your case that you will trust in a nominal religion; but a nominal Christianity is worthless. This class is the most difficult to reach. Those who have had opportunities to obtain a knowledge of the truth, yet are not in the truth or the truth in them, will always be misleading. Every soul is to stand for his individual self. In the day of test and trial none can buy or borrow oil of his neighbor. He must have the oil of grace in his vessel with his lamp. This is solid experience, and this experience should grow into knowledge, and this knowledge obtained by most earnest prayer will be fed by the faith that is in Christ Jesus. Lt 79, 1897
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny Him. Titus 1:16
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. Exodus 20:7