Les Feldick Bible Study

What would a community of 100% born-again believers be like?

A community of 100% born-again believers would be a decent place to live because practicing believers are good citizens, good parents, grandparents, children, and teenagers who enhance society. They are not perfect, but God's power unto salvation makes them different and positively impacts their surroundings.

Les explains that if you could have a community of 100% born-again believers, you would have a pretty decent place to live. He notes that a practicing believer will be a good citizen, not giving the police department fits, and will also be a good parent, grandparent, child, and teenager. Such people enhance society. However, Les clarifies this does not mean perfection—any more than a local church is perfect. He says no church is perfect, and if he found a perfect one he would not dare join it because then he would no longer be perfect. Rather, God's power unto salvation has imparted all these things on believers' behalf, making them different. This is an imputed thing God has done, and it does not give believers the right to act as though they are better than everyone else.