As the salesman came to the front door, he turned to the little boy sitting on the steps and asked, “Is your mother home?” The boy said “Yes,” and the salesman began to ring the doorbell.  After several rings and no response, he turned to the boy and said, “I thought you said that your mother was home.” To which the boy replied, “She is, but this isn’t my house.” Sometimes we get the wrong answers because we don’t ask the right questions.  In Mark 10, we read: “And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, What must I do to inherit eternal life?’” (Mark 10:17)

I.  THAT SURELY IS THE WRONG QUESTION, ISN’T IT?  Note carefully that word “do.” It represents one of the greatest misunderstandings about the Christian Faith.  Methodists…