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Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Brian Sparks.
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What is humanism? Let me give an example. My wife has 16 kids in her 1st grade class. Let’s say that 15 of the kids are running around acting crazy. But there is one student that is behaving very well. She is sitting still and doing her work quitely while the rest of the students are going crazy. We would say that my wife have 15 bad students and 1 good student. That would be a humanistic view. Why? Because we assume that the 1 student is good only because she is not doing bad. Therefore we view goodness as being “not bad.” Therefore we teach people to be a good Christian and not smoke, drink, or gamble.
But what if being a good Christian was defined as doing something that was actually good? I believe that we would see a revival in our lives and in our churches if we actually did something good.
Now there are things that is expected of us. Just as the girl who is sitting quitely in my wife’s class. She is not doing anything that is good, she is just not doing anything bad. There are things that we should be doing that is expected of us. But just because we do these things does not mean that we are actually a good Christian. These do not promote the faith but these are things that are expected of us. Some of these things that are neutral by nature would be daily devotionals, prayer, Bible reading, scriptural memorization, and being faithful to those inside their church. These do not make great Christians but makes a good foundation for those who are wanting to be good. For example, the Pharisees would make great church members inside a lot of churches. They are faithful, they could teach, and they had a lot of scripture memorized. But their relationship with Christ was based around rules and regulations.
Humanism makes apathetic people
I see many Christians who attend church, tithe, have their quiet time and be “not bad” Christians. But they stop growing. Why? Because if all they hear is “don’t be like this or that” then they don’t actually do anything good.
When we describe the life of Christ do we focus on His lack of sin or His over-aboundance of good? Here is how God described Jesus:
This should also be our goal. We need to be living a pure life, but Christians cannot be good until they are actually doing something good. We are saved not by works so that we may do that which is good. Now go and do good.
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