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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I think the Recovery is a good example of that. I don't think anyone could argue, that with all the meetings, trainings, door knocking and gospel outreach in the Recovery we are standing for doing nothing. One will usually find themselves much busier than they would in a denomination . . . .
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If that is the sum total of your works, then you have much to learn. Your "works" are all about meetings and specific efforts to preach the gospel. Without the "works" of the rest of your life, including common, run-of-the-mill things, and the generic command to "love your neighbor as yourself," your "religion" is not true. It is just "religious" in the truly negative sense. It is focused solely on the religious things that you do in the context of meetings and specifically evangelistic activities and excludes everything else. I think that you will find that Christ commanded much concerning your everyday life. So you don't have any "religion" there. And you despise it because you say those who do those things are poor and pathetic.
You mock other Christians for doing things other than those that you listed. Now there's some real evidence that you are one with all of the body of Christ; that you don't despise any of the members of that body.
Can't you just feel the sarcasm in that last sentence? It should burn. But you will declare that you are righteous to demean those things. Just like the ones that Jesus declared in Matt 5 to be last in the kingdom because they taught less that the whole law, even as expanded by Jesus just a few verses earlier.