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Are You Wasting Your Time?
There are a number of approaches to the Christian
life that will not work. For instance:
- Don’t try to live the Christian life if
you haven’t personally accepted Christ as your Savior and Lord.
That’s the first step. If you’re not sure whether you’ve done
that, click here for
an explanation.
- Don’t try to live the Christian life by
merely relying on your ability to keep the rules. That’s why the
apostle Paul wrote to one group of “law keepers,” and asked if
they really thought they could finish by human effort what they
had begun by trusting the Lord (Gal. 3:1-5).
- Don’t try to live the Christian life by
just making a weekly pilgrimage to church. Meeting with the people
of God is important (Heb. 10:25). But the Christian life is not
a once-a-week happening, it is a day-to-day relationship with
God.
- Don’t try to live the Christian life by
simply doing good. That’s too general. For a person with this
approach, there aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything
he wants to do. He picks up hitchhikers, sends money to Ethiopia,
gives to the March of Dimes, takes his old clothes to the Salvation
Army, and marches in Right-To-Life parades. All of these things
are commendable, but they are inadequate.
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