Article January 8, 1966 Issue

Signs of the Times

David A. Redding

Christian Herald

The Reverend David A. Redding
First Presbyterian Church East Cleveland, Ohio
in the Christian Herald
New York, New York

It is taken for granted that doing good is a great idea... "The greatest treason is to do the right thing for the wrong reason." The unfeeling, unthinking exploitation of goodness is devil's work. The Lord is not looking at our well-manicured fingertips; "the Lord looketh on the heart." You and I cannot get away with doing good per se.

The New Testament notices a number of decent chaps going down the drain... I don't suppose there ever lived men superior in impeccable behavior to the Pharisees. That fraternity expertly made exactly the right move and always came up with precisely the right answer, topping it off with a tithe or ten percent of their salaries. These fellows couldn't be topped in spiritual stunts, but Jesus blasted their goodness in scalding language because their goodness was an imposition. They were loveless and ugly spirited inside.

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