Comments on: Two Halves of the Whole Gospel http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:23:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rick http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html#comment-31140 Rick Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:02:54 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html#comment-31140 Dan - good post. Tomorrow I will lead some fieldwork and I'll kick it off by reminding the team that we are also elect. :-) Dan – good post. Tomorrow I will lead some fieldwork and I’ll kick it off by reminding the team that we are also elect.

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]]> By: That Saved a “Wreck” Like Me @ Cerulean Sanctum http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html#comment-30802 That Saved a “Wreck” Like Me @ Cerulean Sanctum Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:04:27 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html#comment-30802 [...] post last week on “Two Halves of the Whole Gospel” has generated some interesting conversations. I was originally intending to do a week of [...]

[...] post last week on “Two Halves of the Whole Gospel” has generated some interesting conversations. I was originally intending to do a week of [...]

]]> By: franklin http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html#comment-30800 franklin Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:14:55 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html#comment-30800 Thanks George. Blessings. Dan, I don't know if I should continue commenting here because I don't want to co-opt your blog for things I'm working through. So, this will be my last comment on this thread (I heard your sigh of relief). Thank you for indulging me. I appreciate what you are aiming at, but I don't think I'm agreed with you on the whole. I agree 100$% that it is GRAND NEWS (Gospel!) that God is restoring me into his image (new Adams & Eve's). I love that emphasis and believe it is SORELY missed in almost all evangelical preaching that I hear. The Good News though, is not that I cooperate with God's work to become a new Adam. HE MAKES ME ONE. He gives me a new heart. I am restord at the moment of justification. Sanctification is the working out of that reality from the time I am justified to the time I am glorified. They are inseperable in process but sequential in order. Does that make sense? Don't we disagree on that one point? On a personal note...I am biased about this (shocker, huh?). As I have reveled in the good news of what Jesus did for me in taking my place and enduring the wrath that was mine and as I have embraced who I am in him (good heart, new man in his image)...I have found tremendous power to live a life of holiness - not by trying, and yet, this isn't a "let go and let God" thing. It's simply this: I am so moved by the Gospel as I preach it to myself every day, that I am energized to live for him. Okay, enough already. Thanks for the interaction. Blessings. Thanks George. Blessings.

Dan, I don’t know if I should continue commenting here because I don’t want to co-opt your blog for things I’m working through. So, this will be my last comment on this thread (I heard your sigh of relief). Thank you for indulging me.

I appreciate what you are aiming at, but I don’t think I’m agreed with you on the whole. I agree 100$% that it is GRAND NEWS (Gospel!) that God is restoring me into his image (new Adams & Eve’s). I love that emphasis and believe it is SORELY missed in almost all evangelical preaching that I hear. The Good News though, is not that I cooperate with God’s work to become a new Adam. HE MAKES ME ONE. He gives me a new heart. I am restord at the moment of justification.

Sanctification is the working out of that reality from the time I am justified to the time I am glorified. They are inseperable in process but sequential in order. Does that make sense? Don’t we disagree on that one point?

On a personal note…I am biased about this (shocker, huh?). As I have reveled in the good news of what Jesus did for me in taking my place and enduring the wrath that was mine and as I have embraced who I am in him (good heart, new man in his image)…I have found tremendous power to live a life of holiness – not by trying, and yet, this isn’t a “let go and let God” thing.

It’s simply this: I am so moved by the Gospel as I preach it to myself every day, that I am energized to live for him.

Okay, enough already.

Thanks for the interaction. Blessings.

]]> By: George http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html#comment-30788 George Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:45:33 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/09/two-halves-of-the-whole-gospel.html#comment-30788 Dan and Franklin -- This exchange was simply beautiful. Yours has to rank among the best I've read, demonstrating the implications of theology for practical Christian life. Thanks! Dan and Franklin — This exchange was simply beautiful. Yours has to rank among the best I’ve read, demonstrating the implications of theology for practical Christian life. Thanks!

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