Monday, December 24, 2012

Missions and the Crucified life

 I preached Christ in the power of a "self-originated" fervor, and consequently mutilated Him.   It gave Him no chance to reveal His true self.   Christ must be preached in the power of a Christ- centered, Christ-possessed, Christ empowered life.   Christ is never truly preached until the one who bears the message is, himself, so hidden away with Him in God, that it is no longer the messenger who speaks, but Christ speaking through him.   He (the messenger) must learn to bury himself in the Saviour's wounds, so to speak, and die to his own life, if he would present Christ in Apostolic fashion, to perishing souls.

Quoting : F.G. Huergel, in "Bone of His Bone."   (From Western Recorder).
From a book online  

MISSIONS AND THE CRUCIFIED LIFE


by Elder T. L. Blalock (1865-1960)
China Missionary



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