Information vs. Application

Here is the crux of what Southern religion/doctrine is going through right now-Information vs. application. For the last 50 years or so we have relied heavily on information/doctrine to save people. We have infected people with the idea that knowledge and "correct" doctrine are the way to be saved. Oops...we forgot that Jesus said, "Go into the world and preach the good news". One of the pros our generation, as there are many cons, is we have latched on to this idea. We cannot ever forget that our job as ministers to the broken world, is to SHOW them how Christ lived and what he was about. But, as the book UnChristian found out, moral standards are not the way to SHOW people. Restoration and redemption is what we are to be about. Restoring broken relationships, having healthy Christ-centered marriages, using our finances in a way that is contrary to how the world thinks, and maybe the biggest is letting the church be at the forefront of how to uphold all of these. We cannot make information the point and we cannot apply the wrong principles. God bless us as we strive to find a healthy balance of the two.