4 results for tag: Christ in you

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled – by Ed Dunn

We find ourselves in the midst of a new Easter season. As we do, what perspective can we see in the life of Jesus to help us face and feel his peace during troubling times? The gospel account is well familiar to us during this special time of year. John 14:1-27 (KJV) gives us a glimpse into a conversation as Jesus reminds his followers: “Let not your heart be troubled.” As we look at both Jesus’ context and words, I must admit I love the poetry of the old King James version. The phrasing in this translation, “Let not,” is such a beautiful way of expressing a thought we may not hear so often these days. Beginning the thought with the ...

God’s Grace is Christ in Us – Jim Fowler

Jim Fowler Brad Jersak wrote these words in the “Christianity Without the Religion Blog” "The Beatitudes: Christ Formed In You" dated Nov. 12, 2023: “The saving, sanctifying, and empowering grace of God IS Christ in us.” So true, and to reverse the equation, “Christ in us IS the saving, sanctifying, and empowering grace of God.” This is the mystery (once concealed, now revealed) that Paul was sharing with the Colossians, “the mystery… which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). This is the dynamic core of the gospel. This is the dynamic of the Christ-life in Christ-ones by which the Christ-life is re-presented and ...

Q & R: Is Christ IN all people or only IN Christians? Brad Jersak

Brad Jersak Question:  Is Christ in all people or is Christ only in Christians or only in some Christians? Response:   Full disclosure: my response comes with a two-fold agenda. To say that we can find a good number of verses that make "in-ness" exclusive (e.g. believers are in Christ), but those passages do not negate the truth of the inclusion texts (i.e. humanity is in Christ). Both Scripture sets are true. They are simply referring to different truths. To say that neither inclusion-focused believers ("Trinitarians" for example) nor exclusion-focused believers (Evangelicals for example) need to force all the ...

The Beatitudes: Christ Formed In You – Brad Jersak

My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.(Galatians 4:19) There came a moment when Leo Tolstoy balked. And so did Gandhi.And so did Dietrich Bonhoeffer.And so did Howard Thurman.And so did Martin Luther King Jr.  They all balked at an idea that became dominant 400 years earlier—their own gospel fact-checking challenged the notion that the Sermon on the Mount cannot be practiced and that even trying to practice Christ’s teaching denied the grace of God in favor of salvation by works. As if trust in and obedience to the “law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2) is but a failed attempt to earn ...