Is it sincerity? ?

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In the late 1950s, I decided to drop out of college and go out into the world for some practical experience. I wound up in heavy construction working with industrial explosives. At that particular time in our nation’s history technology was undergoing some dramatic changes. In a few years, we moved from black powder and 20% dynamite to high-tech blasting agents. It was a profound problem for world-class construction companies building dams and huge projects — the kinds of people that I usually seem to find myself working for. On those jobs, we had engineers that had graduated from college. They were smart kids who knew the theory of everything but had no practical understanding of how anything worked. The other side of that was a work force of seasoned old powder men who knew everything there was to know about how to fill boreholes with explosives but absolutely nothing about the new products that were coming on line. I became a leader in that world and developed what would later be my own contracting profession because I had the education and intelligence to know what the theory of these new explosive agents was. I also had the practical experience to know what to do with them once we learned how they worked.

This little excursion into personal experiences is by way of saying that all the goodwill, good intentions, valor, manliness, and integrity in the world will not do you any good if you do not have the knowledge of how it works. That is why we find, in all of the New Testament books, that the first two thirds of the letter is given over to doctrinal dissertation and the last one third to practical exhortation. Until you know how the thing works, the practical exhortations are counterproductive. We had men in that world of industrial explosives trying to employ old practical methods to new high-tech products and the result was less than nothing. The best result was a loss of money and time; the worse result was something very volatile and dangerous.

In Christianity today we have many ambitious, motivated, high-powered people who want to be movers and shakers in the religious world. The problem is that they have no understanding of how the Kingdom of God works from the point of view of the Cross, the Resurrection, the New Creation, and the power and leading of the Holy Ghost. Without that knowledge, virtue and faith are limited.

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