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One can work and not have faith, but one cannot have a living faith and not work. One can do for others and not have love, but one cannot love and not do for others.<\/p>\nby Doy Moyer<\/p>\n
One can work and not have faith, but one cannot have a living faith and not work. One can do for others and not have love, but one cannot love and not do for others.<\/p>\n
We may be prone to evaluating the outward works, the visible doing, “but the LORD looks on the heart<\/em>” (I Samuel 16:7) from which flow the works (or lack thereof). By stressing faith and love, we call attention to the heart that responds willingly to God’s grace. All else can then fall into place.<\/p>\n “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ<\/em>” (Colossians 3:23-24).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Doy Moyer One can work and not have faith, but one cannot have a living faith and not work. One can do for others and not have love, but one cannot love and not do for others. We may be prone to evaluating the outward works, the visible doing, “but the LORD looks on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,495,65,54,55],"class_list":["post-67090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-faith","tag-heart","tag-love","tag-obedience","tag-works"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28611,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-is-a-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":67090,"position":0},"title":"What is a work?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I'm a little confused by works. 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It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":86998,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/faith-plus-works\/","url_meta":{"origin":67090,"position":3},"title":"Faith Plus Works?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton Faith-only advocates have actually worked hard to convince themselves that if you include any activity in faith, such as obedience, you have added \"you\" and your effort to Jesus' perfect and complete work. Yet, who is doing the believing? You are! How does faith come? 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