TO BE A MAN CLOTHED IN CHRIST
01/05/24 10:05
There is a way of avoiding fig leaf grace and pseudo sanctification. It’s the living way of Christ for us and as us.
THE GUARANTEE IS CHRIST
“God's election is certainly unconditional, but in the sense that a covenantal relationship is. It will never be withdrawn and will ultimately prevail. In the meantime, however, it respects human agency carefully, as seen most clearly in God's incarnation to meet us. Moreover .. it enhances human freedom.
GROWTH IN REAL GRACE
“Those who learn actively and wholeheartedly to live out of their new location in Christ can grow dramatically in their capacity to act in good ways. Relational election nurtures human agency and freedom; it does not stifle it. It summons us to ongoing and deeper responsiveness, which is to say, to learning, and many of Augustine's writings contain a great deal of wisdom about this process. Nevertheless, any exclusion of human activity in response to God's initiative in his name, in a type of hyper-Augustinianism, must be vigilantly opposed and rejected. 'This type of unconditionality undermines the heart of the life of discipleship.” (1)
Christ in us, makes us more than decent people. He expresses Himself in us by giving us the capacity to love.
AGREE WITH CHRIST
Thus, we agree with Christ that He has included us in His communion with the Trinity. He Himself is us towards God. A Sabbath rest in His life means that Jesus becomes expressed as us - as we live the eucharist rather than just celebrate it. Male inhumanity to women is a current issue in Australian society. Don’t expect things to get better if all we do is join marches, put ambulances at the bottom of cliffs or indulge in coercion and control by means of social media or any other eternality. It takes a change of heart in individuals to embed life-giving change in society.
(1) Douglas Campbell. Pauline Dogmatics The Triumph of Gods Love. 181.
THE GUARANTEE IS CHRIST
“God's election is certainly unconditional, but in the sense that a covenantal relationship is. It will never be withdrawn and will ultimately prevail. In the meantime, however, it respects human agency carefully, as seen most clearly in God's incarnation to meet us. Moreover .. it enhances human freedom.
GROWTH IN REAL GRACE
“Those who learn actively and wholeheartedly to live out of their new location in Christ can grow dramatically in their capacity to act in good ways. Relational election nurtures human agency and freedom; it does not stifle it. It summons us to ongoing and deeper responsiveness, which is to say, to learning, and many of Augustine's writings contain a great deal of wisdom about this process. Nevertheless, any exclusion of human activity in response to God's initiative in his name, in a type of hyper-Augustinianism, must be vigilantly opposed and rejected. 'This type of unconditionality undermines the heart of the life of discipleship.” (1)
Christ in us, makes us more than decent people. He expresses Himself in us by giving us the capacity to love.
AGREE WITH CHRIST
Thus, we agree with Christ that He has included us in His communion with the Trinity. He Himself is us towards God. A Sabbath rest in His life means that Jesus becomes expressed as us - as we live the eucharist rather than just celebrate it. Male inhumanity to women is a current issue in Australian society. Don’t expect things to get better if all we do is join marches, put ambulances at the bottom of cliffs or indulge in coercion and control by means of social media or any other eternality. It takes a change of heart in individuals to embed life-giving change in society.
(1) Douglas Campbell. Pauline Dogmatics The Triumph of Gods Love. 181.
