Passion ‘05 update…
BPnews has a story on the heels of the Passion ‘05 conference.
11,000 students worship God at ‘Passion ‘05′ in Nashville
Here we find a similiar theme to a post from a couple of weeks ago that is worth reflecting on again.
Here’s some of the message by Louie Giglio, who helped found the “Passion” movement among college students in 1997…
“The Christian life is impossible!” he said. “There is only one guy who has ever been able to pull it off, and He was so good at it they named it after Him.”
What students must realize, Giglio said, is that they too often live like they believe only half of the Gospel when they say, “I’m a sinner,” and trail off when declaring, “… saved by grace.”
By emphasizing the first part of the phrase, he said, it is easier to give in to sin because people believe that’s just the way they are. But the truth of the Gospel is that even though humans are by nature sinners, those who have accepted Christ’s work on the cross have been redeemed by grace and are now considered holy children of God, Giglio asserted.
Pointing to Colossians 1:24-27, which ends with, “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” Giglio said the only way to conquer sexual immorality and other sin is to die to self by admitting a total incapability of living the Christian life alone and to accept the gift of the Holy Spirit that is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Here’s the link to the original entry that featured part of a sermon by Charles Stanley…
We can’t live the Christian life
Tags: Theology
