A change of heart

If we are going to reach a person we have to make sure that their worldview is changed. We can't expect them to change their behavior and consider that salvation. You don't enter into a state of grace by obeying laws and rules.

You enter into a state of grace because God, the Holy Spirt, through Christ Jesus draws your heart to Himself.

If someone is only changing external behavior, we do not call that salvation, we call that behavior modification.

God wants our heart! He wants all of us! He wants to indwell in us.

There is no amount of good works, deeds or efforts that can bring us into a state of grace. In fact, the Bible even tells us that "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, this not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not by works - so that no one shall boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

Yesterday we spent the afternoon talking about animism and spiritism and reaching the core of the people that we are working with. I learned that we cannot just reach their external, but their core worldview has to be changed (by God and the Word of course).

This was a big eye opener for me as I could very easily say that their behavior has changed an call that salvation because I can see a change. Yes, we do want to see a change, but it HAS to start in the heart.