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God is BOTH Loving AND Holy

by: John Park, March 24th, 2011

The only way an infinitely holy and righteous God could love self-centered sinners like us unconditionally is because Jesus Christ met every single one of those conditions on our behalf.

Jesus lived the life I couldn’t live and then ultimately died the death I should have died. Trusting in Christ’s life and death is the only reason God loves us.

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1 Peace said at 4:53 am on March 11th, 2012:
David,Good question. I guess I wasn’t clear.I’m not synaig that “doing the work of Christ (without using words) is the work of ‘our sinful nature’.” I am also not synaig that verbal skill is a necessary indicator of our commitment to Christ. Indeed the Good Samaratin is the example of what it means to love our neighbor.What I’m synaig is simply this: Individual loving action for the needy and systemic Christian activity in social justice issues are so important to the holistic gospel message. We cannot think that simply preaching at people or verbally evangelizing or handing out tracts are the only “real” gospel work. We need to get this right. We need to change our disposition about what is gospel.However, in our zeal to “not be that anymore,” I’ve seen people and whole ministries swing the pendulum so far that they no longer value the preaching or verbally sharing an articulation of the story of Jesus. They so value social justice that they devalue evangelism in the classic sense. And then they quote Francis as a way to cop-out of that aspect of the evangelistic endeavor.I’m trying to strike the proper balance here–a holistic evangelistic life that cares for the needy “in the name of Christ.”