What did Mary choose that was “better”?
12th June 2005
A little while back, I commented on SmartChristian’s post on “Is What We “Believe” More Important Than What We “Do”” based on a post by Phil Johnson, long time editor of John MacArthur who posts on what we should learn from the story of Martha and Mary of Bethany.
He quotes MacArthur from his upcoming book:
Human instinct seems to tell us that what we do is more important than what we believe. But that is a false instinct, the product of our fallen self-righteousness. It is a totally wrong way of thinking—sinfully wrong. We must never think more highly of our works for Christ than we do of His works on our behalf.
Here is what I wrote in the comments:
The “orthodoxy” of fundamentalism and evangelicalism from the Martha & Mary story in Luke has been that it is better to be a Mary who sits at the foot of Jesus to learn of Him than to be a Martha who is more interested in serving.
No where in that passage does it say that we have got to sit rather than serve, or it is more important to “believe” than to “do.”
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