Checklists, rules, laws - they are meant to be our servants, not our masters.  As servants, they can greatly aid us in our walk with Jesus.  As masters, they lead us astray, for they can never save or sanctify us.

Matthew 23:15, Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

The Pharisees, apparently, went to great lengths to convert nonbelievers to the Jewish faith.  But, since they missed the main point of the Law, they made those converts, for the most part, children of hell, not children of grace.  Is there any warning in this for those of us who love the lost?

Quiet Reflections: Are we living by grace, walking in the Spirit, and loving God and our fellowman?  Or are we content to play the checklist game?  If the latter, then the best thing we could do is to NOT seek and save the lost.  Live by grace.  Walk in the Spirit.  Love God and your fellowman.  Pray for the lost.  Seek them out and point them to Christ. 

Thoughts or comments?

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