Empty Wallet and a Heart of Gold

A K-Mart store in Kentucky is going out of business.  A man decided that he was going to buy up the rest of the stock, and donate it to charity.......Read the article below.....

Kentucky Man Buys Everything

We as Lutherans see the only way to righteousness is through faith.  That's all hunky-dory and everything, but what does God REALLY think?

If you regularly read my blog, you know that my church hands out water bottles to people stopped at red lights in town.  We are also encouraged to pay for the meals of other people in the restaurant or fast-food drive thru.

This man, however, BOUGHT AN ENTIRE STORE'S STOCK and donated it to charity.........I used to say doing good deeds makes you a real Christian.  Is this true?  I want to think so, but the Bible doesn't.

Romans 3:21-26 

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.  God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood —to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished — he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

This man has a big heart, and an empty wallet now.  I'd like to see him as a true Christian.....