Doing What Is Right Vs. Becoming the Kind of Person Who Does Right
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I was recently listening to tape four of a Willow Creek series entitled "If Jesus Ran the World" by John Ortberg. At one point he presents the case case against the Pharisees as follows:
"If you aim your behavior at doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong," you will surely fail. Jesus understood this and instead preached that we should, "aim at becoming the kind of person who does right things, the kind of person who doesn't want to do wrong things."
It is an interesting distinction but I think one that rings true. Inevitably, simply striving to do right fails. If one strives to be right then the doing right falls in to place naturally. Doing right becomes the natural desire.
2:59:58 PM
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