Inadequacy of Accountability

calendar_today July 3, 2014
menu_book Philippians 2:12-18 , 
person Rev. T. J. Campo
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Today,we consider a big topic for Christians and that is “Why be good?” Why, if our acceptance with God has nothing to do with our own behavior/conduct, THEN why should we have any concern at all about our conduct? What motivates us to love, to obey? If our obeying really doesn’t matter than why obey?…OR DOES it matter and if so than in WHAT way? AND while we may HOPE for a simple answer, what we get instead is an apparent contradiction – maybe not a FORMAL paradox, not NON-SENSE but one that looks that way, one that CALLS us to live in an uncomfortable yet unavoidable tension.

Let’s look at 1st) The Issue Clarified 2nd) The Issue Re-Complicated
3rd) The Issue Re-Clarified

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