Good works matter because they are the fruit growing on the root of love. After all, God created humanity as an act of love toward us. He made us to glorify and enjoy Him. By ruling creation in righteousness, we would have displayed God’s loving character throughout the world. By serving God in the obedience that he created us to perform, we would have reciprocated God’s amazing love to us. Before sin, God’s law was not a miserable imposition. It was a blueprint to show us how best to love God and how to love our neighbor. Good works matter as a part of the flourishing human life because they demonstrate and display the love in our hearts for God and for others.

Harrison Perkins | “Why Good Works Matter” | Tabletalk (January, 2026), 7.

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  Harrison Perkins (PhD, Queen’s University Belfast; MDiv, Westminster Seminary California) is pastor of Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC), a member of the of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, a Senior Research Fellow at the Craig Center for the Study of the Westminster Standards,  online instructor in church history at Westminster Theological Seminary, a visiting lecturer in systematic theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, and author of Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction. You can read more from him at Pastor Perks.

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