Comments on: Faith, Doctrine and Works http://safle.org/wordpress/2007/03/22/faith-doctrine-and-works.html Pretentious Waffle from Wales Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:56:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephen http://safle.org/wordpress/2007/03/22/faith-doctrine-and-works.html/comment-page-1#comment-13499 Stephen Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:23:58 +0000 http://safle.org/wordpress/2007/03/22/faith-doctrine-and-works.html#comment-13499 Thanks both for your comments. Thanks both for your comments.

]]> By: Don James Gonzales http://safle.org/wordpress/2007/03/22/faith-doctrine-and-works.html/comment-page-1#comment-13497 Don James Gonzales Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:29:38 +0000 http://safle.org/wordpress/2007/03/22/faith-doctrine-and-works.html#comment-13497 This was very convicting and helped me see myself and how often I place " fig leaves "around my shame and not have as my focus the glory of God through the rugged ,brutal ,and simple yet all mysterious and most of all needful cross .I need to rejoice in the Lord and HIS WORD AND WORKS ;allowing my self -interest to be cut off and live passionately for His Glory by the access to His Spirit given by the work done on the cross. Thanks ,Don This was very convicting and helped me see myself and how often I place ” fig leaves “around my shame and not have as my focus the glory of God through the rugged ,brutal ,and simple yet all mysterious and most of all needful cross .I need to rejoice in the Lord and HIS WORD AND WORKS ;allowing my self -interest to be cut off and live passionately for His Glory by the access to His Spirit given by the work done on the cross. Thanks ,Don

]]> By: MInTheGap http://safle.org/wordpress/2007/03/22/faith-doctrine-and-works.html/comment-page-1#comment-13485 MInTheGap Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:15:16 +0000 http://safle.org/wordpress/2007/03/22/faith-doctrine-and-works.html#comment-13485 What a marvelous post. I think you've hit it right on the head. We are so far gone into "easy believism" where we expect a simple prayer to mean something to a person and after which point we fall into this "you know you are saved, because you said this" that I think many people have a "false salvation." If that's possible. To say that you think certain things about Jesus and what He did on the cross and yet not to have it change your life means that you said empty words. I think that this is exactly the point that James was trying to get across with the discussion about "faith" without works is dead. Thanks for the reminder! What a marvelous post. I think you’ve hit it right on the head. We are so far gone into “easy believism” where we expect a simple prayer to mean something to a person and after which point we fall into this “you know you are saved, because you said this” that I think many people have a “false salvation.” If that’s possible.

To say that you think certain things about Jesus and what He did on the cross and yet not to have it change your life means that you said empty words. I think that this is exactly the point that James was trying to get across with the discussion about “faith” without works is dead.

Thanks for the reminder!

]]>