“Actions speak louder than words,” is said to go all the way back to 1628. (No, I wasn’t there.) It was first used in its current form in the USA by Abraham Lincoln in 1856. My theory, which hasn’t been fully validated, holds that Lincoln was pondering a verse in the Bible:
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
One of my favorite preachers from days long past made the following statement:
“We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.”
The church today doesn’t need a by-pass but a new heart that only God can provide if it’s willing.
Give it some thought.
Gary