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The Christian Life: A Summary So Far

Over the past months, I have been discussing how to live the Christian life.  I want now to stop and summarize what we have seen so far.  This is, thus, a review, a satellite picture of a portion of the Christian life.  When you live the Christian life, what should it look like?  What helps us live the life Christ calls us to live?  So here goes. The Christian life requires a Christian.  This is basic.  To live the Christian life, you must first have the life of Christ in you.  Unconverted people cannot live converted lives.  Christ must change…

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Sharing Your Life

that I may know Him (Phil 3:10) Lord, I want to know you.  In the end, nothing else matters.  Let me know you. When I married Leanne, we became one and began a life together.  I married her because I knew I wanted to be with her.  But when I married her, I also began a lifelong process of getting to know her.  I knew her but I didn’t know her.  I knew her because I had spent time with her, had talked with her, and had seen her life.  But when we married, the time with her, the talking…

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Food for the Soul

Man does not live by bread alone . . . Feed me, O God.  Feed me yourself, that I might know you more closely, love you more strongly, walk with you more constantly.  I need to hear and to heed your words – not mine, not those of my friends or family or government or culture.  I need to hear from you.  How my soul thirsts for the living God and for a word from Him!  A growing boy needs to eat.  When I was a child, I remember my mother saying, “Now eat your dinner.  If you want to…

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Needing the Church

I mentioned in the previous blog that the church is necessary to your spiritual life. When I talk like that, I occasionally get pushback from people who feel they can walk with Christ apart from His body.  Here are some reasons people give for separating from the body of Christ. The church is dysfunctional. Of course it is.  And so are you.  Some churches are more dysfunctional than others, and some churches you should get out of, but let’s not throw away the church with the dysfunction.  Trying to follow God all by yourself is dysfunctional.  If you, thus, abandon…

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The Church Command

As iron sharpens iron, so does one man sharpen another (Pr 27:17) Lord, I praise you for your people.  I thank you for surrounding me with them.   If you want to be good at something, it helps to see others who are good at it.  Doctors do residencies so they can follow other doctors.  They don’t learn medicine all by themselves.  Instead, good doctors build good doctors.  The Christian life is like this. A basic principle of the Christian life is that it requires a church.  You cannot live the Christian life all by yourself.  You grow in Christ…

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