Pietism is a movement that seeks out to perform what we teach to be put in actual lives. They have emphasized much about personal devotion and Bible reading. These practices are in fact in the Bible. It was commanded that we read the word of God and pray to God. However, in the long run, the idea was slowly twisted in the sense that it leads to self-righteousness because one has to do such things in order to have merits with God. They slowly turn to judgmentalism, considering themselves to be more holy than others.
It is a good discipline for every member
of the church. However when we seek to
do things that we think we can to please God, it will end up to extremity. And when there is extremity then, that would
no longer be good. I sometimes have the
tendency to do things on my own forgetting that by my strength I’m nothing. I tend to be selfish at times in my decision
and in my actions. Yet it will always have
negative results.
It’s a good thing to follow God. Yet let’s not forget that our actions do not earn
merits to gain favour from the Lord to the point that we think we are better
and holier than others. Holiness is not
based upon our actions but based upon what Christ has done. Therefore we seek to glorify God in our lives
not to gratify ourselves.
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