"..witness
daily by living a Christian life.."
PAST
MESSAGES:
A
FAITH THAT'S ALIVE
BELIEVERS
ARE TO LIVE IN LOVE
GOD'S
WORD
HOW
I VIEW MY CHURCH
PSALM
92:1-4
FOUR
GREAT VISIONS
COMPLETE
SURRENDER
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"BELIEF
IS NOT ENOUGH"
Many
people contend that Christian Faith is to be measured or
determined by one's belief. This is unfortunate.
Belief
without commitment, for instance
is a "player who doesn't enter
the game", but sits on the sidelines to cheer
or criticize, whatever his disposition may be.
Belief
without sacrifice is a religion
that stands apart, uninvolved, indifferent, therefore futile!!
Belief
without response is a "soul
looking back over its shoulder."
Belief
without participation in life,
all of life, is to reduce oneself to a creature in this
world which demands action now.
The
trouble with the "merely believing"
religion is that it is unconfirmed, always defensive, threatened",
and negative. Its energies are spent defending a position
or in resisting the strange,
the alien, the new.
Lacking confirmation, through positive response of faith,
therefore having no proof of its own reality, it breeds
frustration and insecurity, conflict and confusion.
Faith
is a simple response to what GOD is doing in history and
to what GOD has done in CHRIST. It involves obedience
to the needs which GOD has set before us.
Pastor
D.U. Cooper
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