Sublime

Jesus is obedient because God’s being is found in God’s act and this God of Israel is a minister (the being of God is revealed as minister, as one who reaches out to embrace and be with humanity—“ministry” and “minister” throughout the rest of this project will mean this act of sharing in the life of another for the sake of love and communion). Jes

Start looking around at your personal mission field and pray, “God, who have you put in my life for me to tell about Jesus?”

The reason for our confusion is that we usually read the Bible as a series of disconnected stories, each with a “moral” for how we should live our lives. It is not. Rather, it comprises a single story, telling us how the human race got into its present condition, and how God through Jesus Christ has come and will come to put things right.

These acts of mercy, love, and compassion are not magical but hypostatic, and they are hypostatic because they gift the one ministered to with the new narrative arc of Jesus himself.

Lewis’s conversion to faith was followed by a life of spiritual discipline. He spent time daily in Bible study and prayer. He committed himself to a community of faith and even went to a spiritual director to be discipled. Furthermore, he gave of his resources—both money and time—in service to Christ. He took what he had, his pen and his brilliant