Matt Walsh makes an interesting argument here.
I think CS Lews, as usual, put it best:
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it.
It is a detestable heresy, this modern “it doesn’t matter what we do” garbage. I truly hate it because I see how it is so truly tempting, particularly in our culture. I hate it because it tricks people into thinking they have faith in Jesus when, in fact, their faith lies only in an invisible friend they made up in their heads.
An inactive faith is dead not because we have failed to sufficiently prove it, but because there is fundamentally no such thing as an inactive faith, just as there is no such thing as inactive love or inactive charity or inactive hope or inactive courage. Our faith is spoken through our words and our deeds. Otherwise it’s not faith. It’s just a feeling.
Jesus never promised that faith would be comfortable, much less fashionable or fun. So if you’re sitting around right now and thinking this “being a Christian” thing is pretty relaxing and easy, you’re doing it wrong. Yes — doing. And if your church is putting these ideas in your head, rebuke the pastor and run away as fast as you can. That place is a pagan temple, not a church.
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