"Ya Mama Don't Dance. . .(Thoughts on Moralism -- Part III)

John Hendryx, of Monergism, writes in his article Christ vs. Moralism , "[a] common religion of our time is one of moralism, and many evangelicals tend to moralism without even realizing they are. Moralism seeks to achieve perfection through behavior modification. It often accompanies the religion of 'family values' that we hear about each day on the radio. This kind of religion risks self-righteously looking down on unbelievers by putting our supposed morality in a comparison with theirs. It is as if we believe our entrance into Christianity is by grace but that our lives in Christ are due to our maintained by some kind of moralism. . .Unfortunately a large percentage of Christians think moralism, avoiding wrongdoing of every kind, is what Christianity is all about, (otherwise why so much effort to get our morals put into law) not realizing that we need to repent of trusting in our good deeds and bad ones. . .The world would believe us much more if we simply stopped pretending and boasting about being so much more moral than we really are."