Saturday, August 20, 2011

You Cannot Work Your Way To Heaven.

'Faith Without Works is dead.' James 2:20.
If you say you are a believer but your life shows otherwise by the spiritual inactivity in God's sphere and social inactivity amongst your neighbours in their sphere - how can you claim to have 'faith'?
Conversely, 'good works' alone have only a superficial value.
You Cannot Work Your Way Into Heaven.
   No. Faith and 'works' are inextricably intertwined within the Two Commandments - to 'Love God' and 'Love your neighbour.'

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