In contrast to the indolent and gloomy quasi-religious crowd, the salvific saints of souls and society have always been set apart by the hope and heat they carry within which manifests in good works without.  They know that time is on their side and that their efforts are not going to go unnoticed and ineffectively down the crapper.

Thus, they are, as J.I. Packer said, ?crusading activists without a jot of self-reliance; workers of God who depend utterly on God to work in and through them and who always give God the praise for anything they do that in retrospect seems to them to have been right; gifted men who prayed earnestly that God would enable them to use their powers, not for self display, but for his praise ? [They were people] who made strong prayers privately before tackling any matter of importance.?

These transformers were not known for singing kum-ba-yah for too long.  They did not wrap themselves in warm gurgling bubbles of a feel-good hot-tub religion when the situation screamed for activity.  They understood that when insanity seems sane and unfaithfulness appears okey dokey, to settle for business-as-usual Christianity would be a slap in God?s face and act of hatred toward their fellow man.  Yes, they were men and women who had a passion for effective action. 

Would that describe you?

To be continued?

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