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Perryism – Faith is obedience; obedience is faith.
Far more eloquent and authoritative than my above Perryism is the following:
“We must never forget the indissoluble unity of the two (faith, obedience); we must place the one proposition that only he who believes is obedient alongside the other, that only he who is obedient believes. In the one case faith is the condition of obedience, and in the other obedience is the condition of faith.”
“‘Only those who believe obey’ is what we say to that part of a believer’s soul which obeys, and the ‘only those who obey believe’ is what we say to that part of the soul of the obedient which believes. If the first half of the proposition stands alone, the believer is exposed to the danger of cheap grace, which is another word for damnation. If the second half stands alone, the believer is exposed to the danger of salvation through works, which is another word for damnation” (Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, pg. 69, 74).
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