Why Work?
I like using the title ‘Calvinist’. Not because I follow John Calvin (I actually don’t know that much about the guy), but because Calvinism does a good job of putting together what the Bible teaches about Grace and Salvation in a simple way: 1. We’re dead because of sin. (Eph 2:1) 2. God chose to save us, not because we did something to deserve being saved. (Rom 8:29-30, 9:11) 3. Salvation is a work that is for God’s chosen people and is already completed (Eph 1:4-6) 4. God’s power really does save us, and we can’t do anything to escape this love. (John 6:37) 5. God doesn’t just save us, he keeps us as well. He finishes what He started. (John 10:27-29) Many people think that this is too easy. That believing Eph 2:8-9 will makes us lazy Christians that go on sinning because we already have a space reserved in heaven. Why do we Christians ‘work’ then, if we don’t need to do it to be saved nor to remain saved? If God is doing all the work, like He says, what’s the point of