Not well learned…
Not well discussed…
Not well thought…
Not well said…
Not well intentioned…
He will say “WELL DONE“
God’s Word does not just suggest that True Faith will terminate in ACTION… It commands it:
James 2:17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
I WILL SHOW YOU MY FAITH BY MY WORKS…
Perhaps it was this apathy that led Soren Kierkegaard to say this:
“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.”
The Master will say ‘Well Done”…. or will He???
Brad Cooper is the Anderson Campus Student Pastor at NewSpring Church in Anderson, SC.