Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up
\n that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ… .<\/p>\n— Colossians 1:2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Christian worker has to be a sacramental “go-between,” to be so
\nidentified with his Lord and the reality of His Redemption that He
\ncan continually bring His creating life through him. It is not the
\nstrength of one man’s personality being superimposed on another, but
\nthe real presence of Christ coming through the elements of the
\nworker’s life. When we preach the historic facts of the life and
\ndeath of Our Lord as they are conveyed in the New Testament, our
\nwords are made sacramental, God uses them on the ground of His
\nRedemption to create in those who listen that which is not created
\notherwise. If we preach the effects of Redemption in human life
\ninstead of the revelation regarding Jesus, the result in those who
\nlisten is not new birth, but refined spiritual culture, and the
\nSpirit of God cannot witness to it because such preaching is in
\nanother domain. We have to see that we are in such living sympathy
\nwith God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in souls the
\nthings which He alone can do.<\/p>\nWhat a wonderful personality! What a fascinating man! Such marvellous
\ninsight! What chance has the Gospel of God through all that? It
\ncannot get through, because the line of attraction is always the line
\nof appeal. If a man attracts by his personality, his appeal is along
\nthat line; if he is identified with his Lord’s personality, then the
\nappeal is along the line of what Jesus Christ can do. The danger is
\nto glory in men; Jesus says we are to lift Him up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ… . — Colossians 1:2 The Christian worker has to be a sacramental “go-between,” to be so identified with his Lord and the reality of His Redemption that He can continually bring His creating life through…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}