Well, been a long time since I've posted here, but I wanted to post about a singer/song and about a specific line she says:
Specifically she is Brooke Fraser and the song is "Albertine".
She's actually a member of Hillsong Church, but we use a lot of their music for our youth.
Thing is the Album Albertine and the song albertine are her own single.
The line I was talking about is:
"Now that I have seen, I am responsible; Faith without deeds is dead"
The thing is, I've been thinking a lot about that sort of thing lately.
Where I come from (South Africa) There is a lot of poverty... children dying of absolute starvation; people dying of aids;
There is crime, and many other travesties... So I can well Identify with what she's saying
(The song is about Albertine - a girl she met in Rwanda - who lost everyone because of the genocide - she sings about now being
responsible -- not being allowed to just DO nothing)...
I've always believed the same thing: "Faith without deeds is dead" -- Not because of Justification by deeds at all, but
because having Faith, Loving God will NATURALLY be manifest in our actions, in our deeds, in our thoughts... because what
we LOVE, becomes part of us, and we of it... So, the deeds will STEM from the Faith that we have, and will reinforce it. And God's Grace will feed us and strengthen that Faith, that Love.
Anyway I was just thinking about how amazing and unselfish those words of hers are.
In Christ.
Specifically she is Brooke Fraser and the song is "Albertine".
She's actually a member of Hillsong Church, but we use a lot of their music for our youth.
Thing is the Album Albertine and the song albertine are her own single.
The line I was talking about is:
"Now that I have seen, I am responsible; Faith without deeds is dead"
The thing is, I've been thinking a lot about that sort of thing lately.
Where I come from (South Africa) There is a lot of poverty... children dying of absolute starvation; people dying of aids;
There is crime, and many other travesties... So I can well Identify with what she's saying
(The song is about Albertine - a girl she met in Rwanda - who lost everyone because of the genocide - she sings about now being
responsible -- not being allowed to just DO nothing)...
I've always believed the same thing: "Faith without deeds is dead" -- Not because of Justification by deeds at all, but
because having Faith, Loving God will NATURALLY be manifest in our actions, in our deeds, in our thoughts... because what
we LOVE, becomes part of us, and we of it... So, the deeds will STEM from the Faith that we have, and will reinforce it. And God's Grace will feed us and strengthen that Faith, that Love.
Anyway I was just thinking about how amazing and unselfish those words of hers are.
In Christ.