***We do it BECAUSE we’re saved, not to achieve it. God wants us to do good works because He planned them for us from the beginning.***
What happens if you don’t do good works? What happens to your bad works? Does it really matter to the Reformed?
***What happens if you don’t do good works? What happens to your bad works? Does it really matter to the Reformed?***
If you have no desire to do good works, I would question your faith. God gives us the desire to do good works, the ability to do good works, and the command to do good works. Not for salvation, but in thanksgiving.
Your bad works, I assume, are sins. They are already forgiven by Jesus Christ.
Yes, it really matters to the Reformed.
I think it does make a different to ‘the reformed.’ At least to the born again reformed who love Jesus and want to live for Him. I’m not talking about liberal churches, although many of them do good works as well. I can’t really speak for anyone else but bad works will be judged in the end, as will our good works. Only what’s done for HIM will last.