We must work out our salvation in personal penitence, personal faith, personal sacrifice, personal obedience. No one else can pray for us. No one can read the Bible for us. No one can do Christian service for us. The Christian religion is creative.
All imitative behavior is inadequate.
We must have that inward understanding of the value of God's truth to which we are accountable and must bear witness. All talk of religion is fruitless unless our personal responsibility to God is given first place. The woman of Samaria at the well might have turned her back on the stranger sitting there who asked her for a drink. But if she had, her life would have been spent in darkness. Mirrored in the eyes and the words of Jesus she caught a glimpse of God's amazing purpose for her life.