Comments on: A second and third Reformation… https://brianharrisauthor.com/a-second-and-third-reformation/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:17:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/a-second-and-third-reformation/#comment-4730 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:33:19 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1870#comment-4730 In reply to Deborah HUdson.

Thanks Deborah. Really appreciate your insights.

]]> By: Deborah HUdson https://brianharrisauthor.com/a-second-and-third-reformation/#comment-4729 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 02:34:31 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1870#comment-4729 Very true Brian. God does call us to have a soft heart to be there for others in a real and personal way, not just financial.
Nevertheless I know from personal experience that as a young Christian my heart was very open to help others to be the conduit so to speak as God’s hands. As I walked further in life and was bruised and battered by life experiences I found there was not always a helping hand or a loving heart to help me; and my heart began to harden, I still tried to be aware of where God desired me to be for others, acknowledging that He was present in my life for me and that was not always the case for many that He had me minister too. The years wore on and the hardships and hurt increased not only by non Christians but by those I saw as friends, as family and as happens even so called good Christian people. The hurt hardened my heart yet God continued to call me to have a heart for others – how difficult that became, as it does for many of us. Nevertheless God asked me to forgive those who hurt me, those who were not there for me, I tried sometimes successfully, sometimes with great pain – and in time I believe that I forgave those who had hurt me. I remember well Rick Warrens teaching and what often became of the practical outworking of it. It is not by works that we are saved but by Grace. However as a body of believers works and grace go hand in hand. I have found that many who give their time without the right heart attitude and boundaries fall by the side of the road, and there is often no Good Samaritan to pick them up – so they get up lick their wounds and the works stop and the wrong mindset begins.
So we are back to your article the world still needs a reformation of deeds – this can only occur if Christ is in the centre of it – man can not accomplish this task alone as we do not have the emotional strength to do this alone.
Thank you for your article, on a very important requirement of Christians living out their lives, its all about running the race and finishing the race having lived as God has asked us to.

]]> By: BarryAustin https://brianharrisauthor.com/a-second-and-third-reformation/#comment-4726 Tue, 31 May 2016 02:57:32 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1870#comment-4726 Yes indeed… An emotionless, stoic adherence to doctrine or works is seriously deficient!

]]> By: Justin https://brianharrisauthor.com/a-second-and-third-reformation/#comment-4724 Tue, 31 May 2016 00:41:19 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1870#comment-4724 Haha, nice writing, I enjoyed the twist.

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