The Art of Witness, link to article by Alvin Reid
Why this link on our Politics blog?
Well, I needed to remind myself that the Gospel- God’s Good News about Jesus Christ covering our sins- is foundational to living effectively as Christian citizens in Maine.
From the article-
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Christianity cannot be reduced to one aspect of its reality:
- The gospel changes one’s behavior, but reducing its effect to behavior modification hides its truth in legalism. The gospel should not create one more Pharisee.
- The gospel sets one free, but noting freedom alone apart from surrender to Christ and His commands traps those freed by it to antinomianism. “If the grace u have received does not help u keep the law, u have not received grace,” as Martyn Lloyd-Jones said well.
- The gospel is truth, and propositional truth for that matter, but reducing it to a series of propositions hides the amazing wonder of the new birth and a relationship with the Most High God.
- The gospel shows us how to do the very thing we are created to do, to worship. But teaching worship provided by the work of Christ as something done mostly in a service guided by particular forms loses the wonder of worship in our preferences, and creates division, not unity.
Read it all at- The Art of Witness | AlvinReid.com.
