Actions lead to who you are.
If you harp, you are a harpist; to be a harpist, you must harp.To be a courageous person you must do things that require courage. You have to go after it, too, be actively pursuing courageous acts, to be considered a courageous person.
If a person wants to be an artist they can't just call themselves an artist, they have to have proof that they can create art.
Without works, a title is nothing but that, a title.
As Christ-followers, it's the same thing. We can't just have the title, there must be proof. And I'm not talking about a slip of paper that says "Soandso was baptized on this date when they were this age at whatever church". I mean the kind of love Dr. Mitchell was talking about when he said,
"Unless you have friendship, unless you have communal love, you don't have anything."
That love, is the kind of action that makes you a Christ-follower.
I commented on Jeremy's blog.
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