Preface to Applying Faith Series August 28, 2007
Posted by reformedville in : Theology , trackbackJust like learning to drive a car, or teaching your child to drive, classroom training is great but the only way you learn how to drive is first by observing it for a period, than reading about some of the technical details, and then you get your permit to drive with someone. After a period of being escorted, you finally get your license to drive on your own.
You already know from experience there are good and bad drivers, some who you trust and others who scare you and don’t obey the law. You know there are others who are so overly cautious they block up free flowing traffic and are a hazard.
But you never learn how to drive until you do it yourself. I can try to impart to my daughter so much, but realize that she will only retain so much and how she actually drives will come from when she does it herself and the habits she develops as she gains experience and confidence in operating the vehicle. Faith is pretty much the same principle. Many of us are in “drivers ed” all of our lives and never take the road, but know every rule of the road, but are afraid to actually get the gospel bus on the road for fear of forgetting something or making a mistake.
Before I posted part two, I wanted to say that this is road tested stuff that is being relayed but you must road test it as well. Faith is active and applied, not just a mental assent or a mystical experience. The demons believe in God and shudder, yet do not have saving faith. Our faith is not only a knowledge of what we believe, and a belief itself ; it alos involes trusting in the author enough to operate in it. This is the kind of faith James was speaking about.
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