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Friday, February 22, 2013

Thirty or so years ago, a popular, oft-repeated phrase among the Reformed was, "If Christianity was a crime, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" Some Christians are too quick to roll their eyes at such a question, probably muttering something like, "works righteousness--bah humbug!" But salvation by grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ is neither an abstract principal, nor is it a call to turn the faith into a self-satisfying excuse for ignoring the needs of others or dismissing God's strict standards of holiness. Viewing faith as a theoretical concept will produce a theoretical righteousness and the "believer" simply conforms to the world.

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