Job Description of the Christan
Your job as a Christian isn't to try harder.
Your job as a Christian isn't to do more.
Your job as a Christian isn't to read your Bible more.
Your job as a Christian isn't to pray more. Or serve more. Or give more.
Your job as a Christian isn't to control yourself better.
Your job as a Christian isn't to do less bad things. Or do more good things.
Your job as a Christian isn't to get your act together or clean up your life.
Your job as a Christian isn't to act like a saint.
Your job as a Christian isn't to be more righteous or less wicked.
Your job as a Christian is believe in the One whom God sent, and all these thing will be added unto you.
About Me
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- Amazing Grace: faith and art
- Between Two Worlds
- Chrisendom
- Conviction of Things Not Seen (Spirituality made practical)
- Cost of Discipleship (An Orthodox twist)
- The Davy Tales
- Get Religion, religion in the press
- Katie Beaton's Comics
- The Lange Family
- Less than the Least(Evangelical law professors)
- Marks of Authentic Mission
- My writing
- Myopic Pilgrim (This AmeriChristian Life, hosted by Ira Jack)
- N State Travellers
- Of First Importance (Quotes on the Gospel)
- Opinions Nobody Asked For
- Smlwoman's Weblog
- Ugly Evangelical
- What Would People Think? (If They Knew I Was a Liberal Jesus Freak)
6 comments:
Might I add that it's been a great pleasure checking your blog to be reminded of the Gospel lately? Because it has.
I'm very glad if that's happened for you, Ben.
It certainly has. Thanks!
Christy's suggestion for how she would phrase the job of a Christian: "To have a relationship with God."
Do the churches teach this?
I think not, and we often as individual Christians fall into that same trap of legalisn and self effort alone. In my Christian walk I have have had to come back to Romans 7 many times and conclude with Paul:
'Wretched man that I am who will deliver me from this body of death?'
And then to my relief find God's amswer to my inadequacy:' Thanks be to God through Christ Jesus'.
Peace and Grace
Excellent
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