Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Hearing and doing

Kevin DeYoung on the guilty feeling that we aren't doing enough in "On Mission, Changing the World, and Not Being Able to Do It All." From the end of a post, all of which is worth reading:
.... I’m not for a minute advocating a cheap grace or an easy-believeism. But the yoke still is easy, right? And the burden still is light, is it not? ....

No doubt some Christians need to be shaken out of their lethargy. I try to do that every Sunday morning and evening. But there are also a whole bunch of Christians who need to be set free from their performance-minded, law-keeping, world-changing, participate-with-God-in-recreating-the-cosmos shackles. I promise you, some of the best people in your churches are getting tired. They don’t need another rah-rah pep talk. They don’t need to hear more statistics and more stories Sunday after Sunday about how bad everything is in the world. They need to hear about Christ’s death and resurrection. They need to hear how we are justified by faith apart from works of the law. They need to hear the old, old story once more. Because the secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us. [more]
DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: On Mission, Changing the World, and Not Being Able to Do It All

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