Faith Without Love = Fundamentalism! (A sermon on Hebrews 11:29-12:2)

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In the New Testament "Letter to the Hebrews" (chapter 11) the author eulogises over all the wonderful things that people have accomplished throughout history through their faith.

When I read this though the first thing that occurred to me was that Al Qaeda and Jabhat Al-Nusra also claim to be 'faith organisations' , though it seems to be a very different sort of faith to anything I'm familiar with.

How do we distinguish between good faith and bad faith? As a child I once believed that anybody who espoused the Christian faith must be a person of good faith whereas all members of other faiths are the bad guys. Then I studied the history of the church and realised (to use Desmond Tutu's phrase) that "God is not a Christian".

I believe the New Testament itself gives us a straightforward way of distinguishing between the faith that kills and the faith that gives life, and I it's something that I think all Christian people need to take to heart.

First preached by Father Dave Smith at Holy Trinity Dulwich Hill, on Sunday the 18th of August. http://www.fatherdave.org

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