If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. James 4:17
“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”
Francis Schaeffer as recounted by Michael A. Milton in Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus (Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2007) 16.
The photo above which I snapped of the Nile River in Egypt links to the Christmas story. Remember Egypt is the place where Mary and Joseph took Jesus to avoid Herod who wanted to take His life.
When I was growing up, I recall vividly a series of videos by Francis Schaeffer. They shaped my thinking and my living. They were entitled, “How Should We Then Live?”. Perhaps you have seen them?
Schaeffer cared deeply that our minds were aligned with Christian truth and that mindset shaped our daily practices. Good thinking alone is not only insufficient, it is ugly, really ugly.
Are you this kind of ugly? I think I am too often. So, what should we do? How should we then live in a broken world if we embrace biblical orthodoxy?
We must not stop at Christian thinking. We must combine it with generous compassion because it is how Christ treated us. He saw our need and ministered to it.
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