How Do We Demonstrate Christ as the Objective Reality?
This is the cornerstone question that believers ask on bended knee and with every pregnant pause that accompanies a longing to please Him. Our trials reveal the compound answer, which is to apply Christ's teachings to our daily living to demonstrate that God brings us to a standard of life by His grace, and we are responsible for demonstrating that standard before God and others.
It is reciprocal. Jesus doesn't become objectively real and true to us by memorizing scripture, attending church events, or surrounding ourselves with Christian people and symbols. Our reality equals the life of Christ when we surrender our hearts and mind to obeying God's commands, promises, and teachings, no matter what it costs us. The evidence that we've embraced our reality in front of others is in our efforts to spend our time living what we believe and discipling others who want to believe by faith in God alone.
God's Approval Is Key
Chambers also asserted that we should "Never court anything other than the approval of God." Our love actions are for everybody's benefit. However, we are not to benefit from the perceived effectiveness of our ministry to others by touting our ministerial successes. Our work begins in the fertile ground where God has laid a foundation of grace. Our persistence comes from the fact that we are fully persuaded disciples of Jesus Christ looking to disciple others until they are wholly yielded to God, right on the battlefields of the most ardent cultural wars.
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