Encounter Recovery Ministries Unknown

This is an open and frank appeal to people seeking recovery from developmental trauma, codependence and addiction. In this talk, I address the need to renew our minds by embracing the biblical revelation of the triune God and what the Bible says about mankind by creation and design, in the fall, and in redemption.

It is not only God's desire that you share in His holiness, He commands you to be holy like He is holy. The good news is that God has not only imputed Christ's holiness to us, God has also imparted genuine Christlike holiness in you and now, by the power of the Spirit you can walk in true holiness, which is the pathway to genuine human happiness.

In this last lesson, we do a brief recap and then develop the biblical principle that -We must first be what we teach before we can teach others.- While we cannot expect perfection in this life, we are called to work out the indwelling life of Christ within our own character, and then help others to the same.

What is the Christian ambition is this present age-- What does it really mean that the -just shall live by faith--- It means we are to live out the certain hope of a complete deliverance that is already at work in us because of the finished work of Christ and the outpouring of the Spirit. We are to live out by faith the life that is yet unseen, that is to say, the life of the future age, the new heaven and new earth wherein dwells only righteousness. In short, we are to live like Jesus lived even in this present age in the certain hope of a fully realized redemption that is nearer than we think.

Do you understand grace to be a transforming power-- This is the sixth point of eight things you need to know- Grace transforms us into the image of Christ. Grace is necessary and sufficient as well as effectual, and therefore, transformational.

Many Christians are told they suffer because they need more faith. In this lesson we discover that not only is faith the gift of God, this gift is effectual because it is of a quality only God can provide. It is not our need for more faith that is at issue, but the need for genuine faith which comes to us not based on merit but as a gift of grace.