What Makes A Better Believer?
April 22, 2010 by Bob Regnerus
Last week, Matt posted a blog on “A Story Of Two Believers” it detailed out the story of two young men who comes to know Christ and how their lives played out, asking at the end, who is the better Christian. As you can imagine, it sparked a number of comments. This week, Bob and Matt will go through the comments and give you some additional thoughts.
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I just finished listening to your podcast. You covered so much it is hard to figure out where to start. From a big picture standpoint the thing I glean from your insights is that leaglism in any flavor is bad. Wheter it is the leagalism of the pharasees in regard to healing on a sabbath or stoning an adulterss who were correct with thier minds but wrong with there heart and spirit or the legalism of 21st century believer who believes in the centrality of church attendance or bible study or tithing as a test of our salvation. If we do not undertand the importance of grace we are in big trouble. With that said I do believe the ideal is to belong to a local body (and you should) we should tithe(at least…if people under the law tithed how much more should we under grace give I would make all the scriptual arguments but I am sure you have heard them) we should have a vibrant on going time in God’s word and I believe this can be done without a spirit of legalism. I have been a believer for over 30 years and in church leadership. I have seen the good the bad and the ugly. And like you I have been challenged by the legalistic spirit I often see and at one time had. However I also see a problem at the opposite end of the spectrum . People unplugging because of a spirit of rebellion (with God not with church) unplugging because they choose the desires of a lifestyle inconsistant with the faith and unplugging because ultimately they value and seek the pleasures of the world. Again as I said before whatever we do we must be honest before the Lord and have the courage to have him (not man) judge our motivations