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...often no external difference between a church member and a nonchurch member. This fact does not necessarily lower the church, but it shows churchmen that if they wish to live as such they must thoroughly understand Christ's teachings. His commandments deal primarily with man's conduct both toward God and toward man. Christ has given to the world examples of how these commandments should be fulfilled. His teachings are generally interpreted too literally. Too often men treat his words as a kind of charm or fetish instead of getting at their real meaning...
Life is not a gift, for a gift is something which we can either accept or reject as we please. We must accept life because it is imposed upon us by a will higher than our own. We should thank God, not for life, but for its chances...
This then is the life that we all live in the flesh. Faith in the Son of God is the source of all truly successful living. The faith which characterized every attitude of Jesus toward life is still the faith with which to meet the life which confronts us today. Trusting implicitly in God, we can toil on, knowing that all will be well. "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," is surely a message more winsome than any other the world has ever heard. Faith in God will...
...whole career of Jesus emphasises the preciousness of the individual. Each is necessary for the completeness of the world. God gave His Son that all might live, and a life for which God cares can not be insignificant or cheap...
Jesus, with His faith in a New Jerusalem, meets the frightened speculations of men concerning death and asks them to see with Him the God of Love standing behind the portals of death to welcome them into the life eternal. Faith in Jesus makes it possible to possess God when He seems farthest away. Into this faith we are all thrown, and by it we are to live, until we can all say with Paul, "This life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God...