A Real-life Response

October 16, 2009

Dear Fellow Travelers,
This is one of the responses I have received regarding my last several perspectives concerning “The Believer’s Club” (used with permission); I think many will identify with it: “I know I cannot live the Christian life... and I believe that the reason we get tired, frustrated and burnt out is because we are striving to do that which was never intended for us to at-tempt. I am tired of trying to do what I can't do.... I’m tired of trying to measure up according to someone else’s list of how I should live and what I should be doing. And I’m tired of someone trying to put this guilt-trip on me because I fail to measure up to their standards of what a Christian should be. I desire to enter His Sabbath rest..... Terry”
One more member of “The Believer’s Club!”
Although many of you have indicated your desire to be a part of “The Believer’s Club,” and some of you have indicated that you are seriously considering it, many of you have said nothing. Of course that is your privilege; however, because I really believe that we can make a difference, I want to encourage you to consider being involved.
Please rest assured that I am not going to ask you for money, nor am I going to ask you to read you Bible more often, to pray for fervently, to attend church more frequently, to feed the hungry more freely, to heal the sick, or to raise the dead. Instead, I am asking you to join a group of people who are stepping off the treadmill of trying to live the Christian life, a group of people who truly embrace the finished work of Jesus (the work He accomplished through His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension), a group of people who are diligent to enter the Sabbath rest that remains for the people of God. In the end, a group of people who practice the truth—I have been crucified with Christ, I no longer live; the life I now live is Christ living His life in and through my earthsuit.
I am eagerly awaiting your decision.