expression of Christ’s life that causes us to be “made safe”
from misuse and dysfunction, in order to function as God
intended by His presence and activity in us.
All of the deeds or works of Christian living are but the
outworking of Christ’s activity. “We are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which He has
prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Eph.
2:10). We allow for the outworking of Christ’s work by
recognizing that “God is at work in us, both to will and to
work for His good pleasure” (Phil. 2:12,13). To claim
Christian faith without any of the consequent outworking of
Christ’s character and activity, is to evidence the invalidity
of such faith (cf. James 2:14,17,26).
Christian ministry is likewise, not something that the
Christian does to serve Jesus. “God is not served with
human hands, as though He needed anything” (Acts 17:25).
Rather, we recognize that the “same God works all things
in all Christians” (I Cor. 12:6). Together with Paul we
affirm that “we are not adequate to consider anything as
coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is of God” (II
Cor. 3:5). This is why Paul declared, “I will not presume to
speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished
through me” (Rom. 15:18).
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