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A friend recently asked me this question after reading through The Roman Road: A Well-Engineered Path to Salvation. It’s a fantastic question and gave me reason to write down my understanding of how they work out.

First, Romans 10:9 – “because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Second, Matthew 7:21 – ““Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”

The apparent argument for conflict here would run something like this. First, I’m told by Paul (in Romans) that if I say out loud “Jesus is Lord”, I’ll be saved. However, Jesus Himself clearly says that not everyone who call’s Him LORD will be saved, but that many will (on the Day of Judgement) approach Him, calling Him LORD, and (many) will not be saved! There certainly appears to be a disconnect, and I would agree that taking the two verses, as they are presented here, doesn’t provide much in the way of unity and compatability - how then will we understand this?

I would submit that the key to understanding how these verses work together in such a way as to provide a true and full bodied understanding of God’s Salvific work will lie in the phrase believe in your heart, and that it will be helpful to further articulate what scripture means when it says “confess with your mouth”.

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Real Power - Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching PDF Print E-mail
Written by Rob Hines   
Wednesday, 02 January 2008

This book has it's premise in the idea that the Tao Te Ching can and should be applied to management and leadership. The Tao Te Ching is an ancient chinese self-help book, also commonly referred to as a book of wisdom. The authors purport to take principles upheld by the Tao Te Ching and apply them to leadership and managment.

I certainly appreciate the fact that with any book on leadership or management you have to exercise a lot of discretion in picking out the wheat from the chaff. That being said, I found this book to be riff with chaff and short on wheat.

Mr. Autry is a good 'Ole Mississippi boy, with an Ole Miss education. In his preface he speaks about the "outpouring of books about management and leadership that now competes with popular fiction for bookstore space" and then he points out how these books are hot today - not tomorrow, contradict each other, etc, then he goes on to say, "I believe it is because managers put too much faith in systems and not enough faith in people".

So I'm reading this thinking, "Wow, this could be good. I agree so much with these statements."

Then I hit Stephen Mitchell's forward, and it was like hitting a brick wall. This guy was obviously much more interested in affecting me spiritually than in providing me with additional tools or perhaps even sharpening a few tools in my managerial toolbox. I suppose I should have been forewarned of this by the fact that the book classifies itself as BUSINESS/SPIRITUALITY and through reading the book I have determined that it is a spirituality that I heartily reject.

As I read through each of the essays, I also discovered that upon reading the excerpts or proverbs from the Tao Te Ching I was agreeing with a lot of them. There was surely some wisdom that could be found by the discerning eye in them. However, I would then read the essays and find myself rejecting the interpretation that the author(s) had come up with. Now granted, they freely admitted that they were, shall we say, stretching it a bit as the Tao Te Ching was originally written as a self-help book and they are attempting to demonstrate how that applies to business practice. Regardless, I felt that they were not only stretching in most cases but were fabricating in others. Not to be totally derisive, I did agree with some small portion of what they were said and found that if I looked I could find something that I personally deemed worthwhile in each essay.

ISBN #: 157322720X 
Recommended?: No
 
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