tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934219918554432299.post7421990242853921747..comments2023-05-17T01:09:54.656-07:00Comments on The Evangelical Calvinist In Plain Language: Being a Passionate ChristianBobby Growhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06831009618873548948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934219918554432299.post-91274346053135598612012-06-02T19:46:35.124-07:002012-06-02T19:46:35.124-07:00Duane,
Thank you for sharing your heart here!
Th...Duane,<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your heart here!<br /><br />Thankfully we can rest in what he did for us. And we move and live from within us, both the judgment and life; both realities embodied in Jesus' life for us. We worship a God of grace, and it is this that compels us; his love. Sure we fail, as long as Jesus didn't; then we're okay. :-)Bobby Growhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06831009618873548948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934219918554432299.post-82609783438101574422012-06-02T12:26:09.519-07:002012-06-02T12:26:09.519-07:00Hi Bobby!
I 2nd most of what you've written u...Hi Bobby! <br />I 2nd most of what you've written up there. I'm zealous to defend God's honor, not like Job's friends, who accused Job in order to justify God and hope to garner some reward from Him, but against those who would make Him out to be as mechanical and determined as they make His creation. I'm passionate against those who would make Jesus compelled by what He was predetermined to do by "providence", rather than moved by His love for Father and creature.<br />And I'm passionate about defending my salvation as having been secured by Him, and not something that I secure by any action or contractual business. <br />That said, and I do believe I love the Lord, I just have never been able to take a measure of that in any way that I don't blush to say it. I think I would be a much better Christian if I loved Him all that much. My conscience tells me "if you love Him, why don't you do what He says?"DUANE WATTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11423814694822039377noreply@blogger.com