I get a regular feed of articles from RZIM, Ravi Zacharias International ministries. Today's article dealt with some very real and valid questions regarding the nature of goodness and salvation:
Why can't I just be a good person? Isn't it unfair of God to say that you can't get into heaven unless you believe in Him, even though you have been a good person?
The article's author, Michael Ramsden, does a great job unpacking the idea that salvation is in fact not at all a measure of our goodness. The one work of God that we are called to is to "believe in the one he has sent". Strangely, that may be the most strenuous of works in our post-modern world. Even so, achieving it is not a measure of greatness, but a measure of humility. Are we willing to accept that we are imperfect-able? that we need to be made new....and that we can be?
Calling all good people.....will you believe?
You can find the rest of Michael Ramsden's article at: http://ls.egen.net/MessageView.aspx?sid=168334955&cid=167773624&textonly=0
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Thanks for sharing. always nice to remember its not our goodness that earns our way, but his generosity that has invited us to share his table.
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