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The Full Compass of Christian Experience

Well, I haven’t posted one of Roger’s articles in a while. This past Sunday’s was particularly good so I thought I would post it. Roger had been under the weather last week, so he had Timothy George, Dean of Beeson preach on Sunday. Gerald Bray is scheduled to preach on Easter.

Being a Christian is being fully human and fully honest about our humanity. In Christ we do not cease to be human, but are striving towards the true humanness restored to our race in the man, Jesus. New birth makes us new men, but we are not supermen, nor perfect men, and the residual traits of our fallen humanity are only still too apparent and troublesome to us. As new men and yet flawed men our natures are conflicted and our ways contradictory and we cope with exasperating inconsistencies and inadequacies that remain a trial to us until that glorious day when we find our selves complete in Christ at last. Until then we must not deny what our humanity properly entails, or pretend that we do not succumb to its weaknesses and wrongs; never cease to resist its unholy urges, nor fail to stretch out toward the goal of true godliness that pleases our heavenly Father. We must own our humanity in all its aspects in its present form knowing that our status in Christ does not exempt us from the full range of human experience but transforms that experience into the making of the mature Christian person.