"Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up
into him who is the head, that is, Christ." Ephesians 4:15
The Bible ... commends a life of balance. We are to speak the truth,
but we are to speak it in love... We are to desire neither poverty nor
riches, we are to embrace neither fullness or want (Proverbs 30:7-9).
We are to bear one another's burdens, we are to bear our own
(Galatians 6:2-5). Salvation is a free gift; good deeds must
necessarily accompany it (Ephesians 2:8-10). The eternal Gospel is
good news; but it is news of fear and judgement (Revelation 14:6-7).
We are to hate the sin; we are to love the sinner (Jude 21-23). We are
in the world; we are not of the world(John 17:15-16). Faith is not of
works, but without works, faith is dead (James 2:26)...
Biblical balance is a happy melding of devotion and action, being and
doing, patience and passion. It manifests word and deed, faith and
works, forgiveness and discipline. It carefully integrates the inner
life and the outer life. It makes quiet conviction the natural
companion of strident confession. It enables the head to coincide with
the heart. Without compromising God's grace it revers God's decrees.
Without suppression spiritual liberty, it upholds spiritual
responsibility.
In other words, it is mature. ...
Biblical balance is more practical than pragmatism. It is more
thoughtful than rationalism. It is more experienced than
existentialism and more romantic than sentimentalism. It is more
stable than conservatism and more progressive than liberalism ...
A faithful return to that kind of balance could very well be the
announcement of hope, the clarion cry for revival, that we so
desperately long for today.
George Grant, The Micah Mandate
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