Aim: To practice the true religion—as the redeemed church of Christ.
Doctrine: The church's true religion encompasses every part of the believing Christian's life. Religion is both the best and the worst of all things, and Christ alone, known by faith, makes it ''true.''
Exegesis: The large domains of the church's true religion: it starts in the mind (manifesting itself in integrity) (v. 26); it extends to the hands (which minister to those in need) (v. 27a); it is ''proved'' in the heart (where God sees its reality) (v. 27b).
Further application: How Christians can know that they practice the true religion: do genuinely loving actions result from our professed faith? Does our ''secret'' life match our ''public'' life?
Key verse: v. 27 ''Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.''
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Mark Henninger
True Religion Series in James Redeemer Presbyterian...
Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.
