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One of the most common problems with Christians in our modern secularized world is that they don't feel the reality of Jesus. Sure, they believe in him and love him, but he somehow doesn't seem to enter their daily lives in a real sense. Some might say, "You ought to pray... read more
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“While there is an important place for endeavoring to fulfill oughts in the Christian life, the most fundamental thing believers need is to have regular times when they rest in an experience of Jesus as real.”
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The flesh state of being starts with deception, leads to performance, requires hiddenness, and finally ends in destruction.
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Exhortations in the New Testament are not given on the basis of what we are not but on the basis of what we already are because of who we are in Christ Jesus.They are given not to motivate the believer to acquire something new but to express something that is already true. In other words, what the believer is called to do is based on who the believer already is. It is crucial to our growth in Christ that we understand this clearly.
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The commands of Scripture are not given to motivate believers to try harder to become something they aren’t already. Rather, the commands of Scripture flow naturally from the proclamations of Scripture about the believer’s true identity. What we are to become in our behavior is rooted in who we already are in Christ. The goal of the Christian life is simply to display in our lives the truth of who we truly are.
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Until we can rest in a love and worth that attach to our being, not our performance, we will never know what it is to live life out of fullness rather than emptiness.
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When we buy into this strategy of obtaining fulfillment from our performance, we must hide everything about ourselves that isn’t consistent with the performance we are giving.
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The heart of the issue about sin in our lives, therefore, is not about our effort or the lack thereof. It’s not about what we do at all. It’s about our being, our identity. What Romans 6 tells us is that what we are supposed to do is based on who we already are.
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Adam and Eve also bought the lie that fullness of life was to be acquired by doing something. At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings. They were defined not by what their Creator thought about them and did for them but by what they thought about themselves and each other based on what they did.
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As we later will see, all genuine spiritual growth comes from the Holy Spirit making our true identity real to us and overcoming the self-identity we inherited from the pattern of the world.
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If the flesh that Paul is speaking of in Galatians is not a “sinful nature,” what is it? I submit that it is a deceptive state of being.1 The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone’s identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one’s world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world. It is that way of thinking, experiencing, and living that is conformed to “the pattern of this world” (Rom. 12:2 NIV).
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fruit of the Spirit is not first and foremost about how we act; it is about how we are. It is not about our behavior; it is about our heart, our soul, our innermost disposition.2 As such, the fruit of the Spirit is not something we can or should strive to produce by our own effort. The fruit of the Spirit is not a goal we can and must seek to attain. Indeed, it is called the fruit of the Spirit precisely because it is the fruit of the Spirit and not the product of our own effort.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. The Foundation: Growing by Resting
1. The Futility of the "Try Harder" Solution
2. The Pattern of This World
3. Four Aspects of the Flesh
4. Overcoming the Flesh
II. Experiencing Jesus
5. The Power of the Imagination
6. Imaginative Prayer in Scripture and Church Tradition
7. Resting in Christ
8. Healing Memories
9. But What About . . . ?
III. From One Degree of Glory to Another
10. You Become What You See: Growing in the Fruit of Love
11. Jesus Throws a Party: Growing in the Fruit of Joy
12. Jesus Closes the Terrified Eyes: Growing in the Fruit of Peace
Appendix: But Is It for You? Answering Questions about Imaginative Prayer
Notes
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- Gregory A. Boyd (Author)
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- Dewey: 248.32
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