Friday, October 30, 2009

Ouch! Was that for me?

"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obligated to act accordingly." Soren Kierkegaard


"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does." James 1:22-25

1 comment:

nick said...

You nailed it John! Chesterton said a similar thing, "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." At the risk of being a "scheming swindler, I ask, What now?