JUST DO IT
Wendy Kaminer, a modern Jew trying to comprehend Christianity, confesses that “as an article of faith, this doctrine of salvation by grace and grace alone is remarkably unappealing to me. It takes, I think, remarkable disregard for justice to idealize a God who so values belief over action. I prefer the God who looks down upon us (in a very old joke) and says, ‘I wish they’d stop worrying about whether or not I exist and start obeying my commandments.'” In truth we Christians, too, may find it easier to follow a God who simply says, “Start obeying my commandments.” From The Jesus I Never Knew, by Philip Yancey, published by Zondervan Publishing, p. 152
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