Contemplations

THE SIN OF OMISSION It may not be the evil things Christians do that keep us from heaven, but the things we do not do. Granted, we cannot enter heaven by our works, but faith without deeds is dead ( James 2:14-26). Can we influence or be an example to pagans without good deeds? Can we have love in our hearts for our fellow man if we do not show that love by our actions? Can we overcome evil with apathy and spiritual slothfulness? Christianity is not a passive, spectator sport or social event. It is love in action . In many of the parables that Jesus told, some were not chastened for the evil deeds he had done, but for those things he did not do. Consider the man who buried his talent in the Parable of the Talents, or the two who refused to help the beaten man in the P arable of the Good Samaritan. In the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, the servant who was forgiven of a great debt refused to forgive a brother of a small debt. In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the prod