I'm not familiar with the term "coal face".
Being proceeds doing. (or it should)
Meaning: Good works should flow from our identity in Christ. (rather than religion)
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Growing in Spiritual Maturity - Being, not doing
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Being proceeds doing. (or it should)
Meaning: Good works should flow from our identity in Christ. (rather than religion)
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quietthinker
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I think the metaphor is taken from the days when pick and shovel were used to harvest coal. It was tough and dirty and immediate.
Good works are naturally a good thing but focus on good works and how they appear and it is no longer natural, it becomes a performance and a self focused comparative exercise.....judging others being the inevitable result.
We are to learn of Jesus. In him are hidden all the treasures which when found (pearl of great price) becomes the motivation to sell all we have (leave self)
I know the language of 'learn of Jesus' has been so used it has all but lost its meaning to the point where it becomes another religious saying.....yet this scripture stands......
'...... in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.....' Colossians 2:2-3
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