Topic : Behavior

Behavior and Belief

Behavior and belief - If you don’t live it, you don’t believe it.

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Faith

Faith in many ways is like a wheelbarrow. You have to put some real push behind it to make it work.

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Impact of Religion

The Princeton Religion Research Center has measured the impact of religion on day-to-day work. Comparing the "churched" with the "unchurched" on a wide range of behaviors like pilfering supplies (stealing), overstating qualifications on resumes (lying), calling in sick when not sick (lying and stealing), and overstating tax deductions (lying, stealing, and cheating), the center finds "little difference in the ethical views and behavior of the churched and the unchurched." What differences there are "are not significant or are of marginal significance."

William Hendricks, in Christianity Today, Nov. 25, 1991

Little Difference

There’s little difference in ethical behavior between the churched and the unchurched. There’s as much pilferage and dishonesty among the churched as the unchurched. And I’m afraid that applies pretty much across the board: religion, per se, is not really life changing. People cite it as important, for instance, in overcoming depression—but it doesn’t have primacy in determining behavior.

George H. Gallup, “Vital Signs,” Leadership, Fall 1987, p. 17

I Surrender

In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception “that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior.” He goes on to say, “It is revival without reformation, without repentance.”

Quoted in John The Baptizer, Bible Study Guide by C. Swindoll, p. 16



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