It’s More “About Deeds, Not Creeds”
"I just think we’re becoming too rude. You have no right to demonize someone just because you disagree with them."
Read the rest of what Rick Warren had to say in yesterday’s Washington Post.
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I’m sensing a common theme in much of the reading/podcasts/etc. I’ve read/heard/been exposed to in the past few months. Why are deeds and creeds held to be mutually exclusive by church leaders, even by many that are supposedly postmodern in thought? Why must there be either/or? Why can it not be deeds AND creeds? Or more precisely, “creeds, then deeds”? That’s what Scripture teaches, and the Christian’s creed is the motivation for his/her deeds.
I agree with the quote you posted, Tony, and with the general sense that Christians have been far too uncaring in concern for their doctrinal purity. But is the pendulum again swinging too far with reactions against cold orthodoxy? True, faith without works is dead. But works without faith are sin. I would humbly suggest we need both temporal and eternal eyes – a heart for the lost and for making this world a better place; a heart that is concerned about a person’s eternal fate AND his/her quality of life here on earth AND the quality of life on earth as a whole. Both/and, not either/or.