“performance based faith is no faith at all”
I learned that early on as a Red Sox fan. No matter how much money they get, no matter what their stats look like before the All Star break, no matter where the team is on September 1, they will let you down and break your heart by October 1. You have to love them just because they are the only game in town.
My Cincy Reds are awful this year.
I heard a sports broadcaster say the other day, “they have only a few more games to show that we can ‘give them our hearts’ this year.”
What if God were like that?
Fickle Christians of any age might learn a few things from our age.
I think the worst thing so many modern Christians do is give away only half their heart to the Lord. Who knows who gets the other half...
The idea of “idolatry” doesn’t really ring true for me when you hear arguments worrying to death the notion that “movies are idols,” “cars are idols,” “success is an idol.” It seems that at some point idols are idols.
However, the degree of self-focus in our culture makes one readily agree that today’s Christians are weak. And that is because they are so weakly committed to the Lord.
Maybe they’re just poorly led, though.