Episode 30: April 7 - Keep Up The Good Work

Faith or works.  Works or faith.

It’s an ancient debate.

Here’s the point:

If you don’t have faith

that you are loved by God through grace

then you get caught up

in trying to earn God’s love

by proving you are worthy

through good works that you do.

If you know by faith

that you are already loved by God

then you are

freed/empowered/exuberant

to do good works

as an expression of your faith and love.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the result of works.”                                                   (Ephesians 2:8-9)

(Good works don’t enable God to love us.)

“For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.”                                             (Ephesians 2:10)

(God’s love enables us to do good works.)

So keep it up.