How Much Is Enough?
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C. S. Lewis When talking with a friend recently, we were discussing how they had grown up believing that the Christian faith it was all about what you do. You go to the best schools. You make the best grades. You excel in sports. You are kind to others. You make good decisions. In other words--You do the “right” things. There is nothing wrong with any of those things except that they can become a checklist instead of a faith relationship with a Savior. If God had wanted us to have a checklist, He would have provided us with the perfect list of things to do and would have told us exactly how many times to do each of them, but He didn’t. So if we were to come up with our own standards how would we ever know if we had done enough to earn our salvation? Of course people like Billy...