Last week we examined how a church could fail in its commitment to follow Jesus and the results of that failure. This week we are going to look at an institution that, by its very nature, fails to follow Jesus…the kingdom of this world. We could call this institution…this group…many things. They could be referred…
In past weeks we have looked at the process through which we are transformed into the likeness of Christ through the lens of Paul’s prayer for the Ephesian believers in Eph 3. After that, for the last couple of weeks, it seemed advisable to ask ourselves the question, “What if we fail to follow…
Last week we asked the questions, “What if we don’t participate in the process of becoming like Jesus? What if we don’t yield our will and spirit to the Spirit of Christ? What if we don’t want… or choose… to be transformed into the image of Christ? What if we deliberately fail to follow Jesus?…
Over the last several weeks we have looked together at Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians, found in Eph 3:14-21. The reason we have taken time to go over it in a fair amount of detail is that the prayer gives an outline of how we can become successful in the Christian life…victorious in our walk…
