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Christians in the early church or of a few spiritual giants like' the Apostle Paul, It is meant fori all Christian of all ages and for all time. It is part and parcel of the Christian life. 1
But, honesty causes us to admit that this experience has somehow escaped many of us. 6hir Christian
sometimes. It becomes onlytari empty performance. We keep going on the strength of a fading conversion experience. Many of us have a "form of godliness, denying the power of it.” f
What is wrong? Might it hot be that we have simply refuse! o believe this tremendous affinSoation of the Christian faith that God is willing to live within »ur lives, to remake us into men and women who are Christiaplike? We hi ay be trying to serve and please
<a God. who is outside us instead of letting the God who is pleased to dwell within us, impart his strength to pur lives.
tor might k be that believing jit, w«f have not acted on it. Lacking a true commitment to God and his rule in human life, we have not (iife gets pretty
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