Zimon
Puritan Board Freshman
This is something I was thinking about for a long time. Before my heart got opened due to the grace of God, I seeked the glory and admiration of the World through some meaningless religious practices (crosses, religious symbols, superficial behaviour, prayers and speeches).
I thank God that he lead me out of this and I understood what true faith is like. But I got in some kind of dilemma: Where is the border between proclaiming the Gospel and seeking the fame of the world?
For example: Recently, I saw a strange couple on the street: the woman wore a very long dress (so that you could not even see her feet) and some kind of white headscarf. The dressing looked nearly a bit medieval. The guy was dressed in white t-shirt and white trousers and had a cross-pendant. Probably some very strange sort of baptists, I thought (We do not have much baptists here).
I wondered if what they do was good or not. On the one hand, they proclaim their faith somehow. They show that they hold to their beliefs even if people look very strange at them (and people did as far as I noticed). They really do what they believe is right.
But on the other hand, it might be superficial as well. If you dress in such a way, you get the attention of the people. It makes you a person of interest. It shows that you are religious.
What is right? Jesus commands us to do not act like the heathens and pharisees, who seek the glory of the world by their religious practices, but on the other hand, we are commanded to follow the law in all situations and to proclaim the gospel wherever we are.
I thank God that he lead me out of this and I understood what true faith is like. But I got in some kind of dilemma: Where is the border between proclaiming the Gospel and seeking the fame of the world?
For example: Recently, I saw a strange couple on the street: the woman wore a very long dress (so that you could not even see her feet) and some kind of white headscarf. The dressing looked nearly a bit medieval. The guy was dressed in white t-shirt and white trousers and had a cross-pendant. Probably some very strange sort of baptists, I thought (We do not have much baptists here).
I wondered if what they do was good or not. On the one hand, they proclaim their faith somehow. They show that they hold to their beliefs even if people look very strange at them (and people did as far as I noticed). They really do what they believe is right.
But on the other hand, it might be superficial as well. If you dress in such a way, you get the attention of the people. It makes you a person of interest. It shows that you are religious.
What is right? Jesus commands us to do not act like the heathens and pharisees, who seek the glory of the world by their religious practices, but on the other hand, we are commanded to follow the law in all situations and to proclaim the gospel wherever we are.