Balance between Work and Grace
We must be balanced as Christians, while denominations are good, they do not define us. We are all Christians. We are defined by our faith and our work/ deeds.
The Bible says that His people will do greater works than Jesus did through the power of the Holy Spirit.
John 14:12 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”
CHAPTER 3
Jesus tells Nicodemus that men must be born again—God so loved the world that He sent His Only Begotten Son to save men—John the Baptist testifies that he that believes on the Son has everlasting life.
John 3:15-3:22
15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”[a]
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateththe light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22 ¶ After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
Methodist creed
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
John Wesley
John Wesley (/ˈwɛsli/;[1] 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelistwho was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.
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… until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
Isaiah 32:15
Isaiah's reference to the Holy Spirit forms a decisive turning point in his discourse against the wayward city, Jerusalem. The first part of his prophecy announces imminent judgment and desolation because of the complacent and carnal attitude of the women of the city. But then a new time is heralded, in which destruction would give way to complete renovation and the whole land would share in the effects of renewal.
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Yet in His punishment the LORD does not abandon His salvation purpose. The imminent destruction of the city will serve to plant a new city – the heavenly one! The arrival of the divine Spirit brings a situation in which not only the city but all creation is renewed. Creation itself shares in the power of rebirth, and the image of the paradise comes to mind.
https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/article/isaiah-3215-–-new-times
Ezekiel 36:25-27
25 I'll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean.
26 I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed.
27 I'll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands.