Walking with Christ
is a Journey… a life-long journey.
Walking, Keeping in Step is the essence of how we are to live as
believers in this world.
They devoted
themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of
bread and to prayer. Acts 2:42
Consider the words
of AW Tozer on this topic:
Conversion for the early New Testament
Christians was not a destination; it was the beginning of a journey. And right
there is where the biblical emphasis differs from ours.
Today, all is made to depend upon the
initial act of believing. At a given moment a “decision” is made for Christ,
and after that everything is “automatic.” Such is the impression inadvertently
created by our failure to lay a scriptural emphasis in our evangelistic
preaching. We of the evangelical churches are almost all guilty of this
lopsided view of the Christian life.
In our eagerness to make converts we allow
our hearers to absorb the idea that they can deal with their entire
responsibility once and for all by an act of believing. This is in some vague
way supposed to honor grace and glorify God, whereas actually it is to make
Christ the author of a grotesque, unworkable system that has no counterpart in
the Scriptures of truth.
In the Book of Acts, faith was for each
believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed in which to lie
while waiting for the day of our Lord’s triumph. Believing was not a once-done
act; it was more than an act, it was an attitude of heart and mind which
inspired and enabled the believer to take up his cross and follow the Lamb
whithersoever He went.
“They continued,” says Luke, and is it not
plain that it was only by continuing that they could confirm their faith?
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