A friend outlined the first part of Charles Colson's book, "How Now Should we Live".
My thoughts:
There is a quote where he says: "Only love changes human behavior...Only love can overcome sinful self-centeredness."
We must understand opposing views as total life systems and then "take our stand in a life system of equally comprehensive and far-reaching power."
Looks like a good book to review only if there is a corresponding application of the words we read. Two choices stare at me.
(1) We read the Word, books and then "take our stand."
(2) We stay home and watch TV and do whatever else we want to.
Going to church and yet having no change in my daily life is just not working anymore. It’s a charade. How is going to church and doing nothing different from me getting on the web and surfing for porn? Help me out with this one. I'm not saying I must see results. What I think I see is the need to be Abraham and tell God, "Yes, I will go build an altar and place my son on it." If we think about it long enough we have fear. Abraham just did it. He had no reason to not trust God. Yet, I continue to submit to fear.
Here's the message: If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? - I John 3:17
Romans 7:19-20 (NASB)
19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
How much longer do I continue to throw down excuses for not following Matthew 28:19-20?
1 comment:
I wonder if many today don't go to church with the subconcious intent of improving their flesh, rather than mortifying it?
And I wonder if many of us church leaders don't unknowingly reinforce that by preaching effort apart from grace and Spirit and gospel?
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