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Originally Posted by Ohio
I no longer find this easy to accept. How can I know someone's heart? What if I am loving or serving someone, yet I am not "in Christ?" How can I know when others serve God without God, when I am not even sure about myself? Lee basically used this definition to condemn all outside the LC. That definitely gave me a judgmental heart.
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I didn't mean is as a way to judge what is religion in others. I meant it as a way to understand what it is in principle, specifically in ourselves. Religion is the opposite of grace, it's living according to a law.
How do you apply the principle? Just stick close to Christ. You don't have to be obsessive about it. But if your service is getting rote and tedious, it could be that you have slipped into serving by your own power. This is a rule of thumb, the point is not to be clear about every single moment, but just to have the right general approach.