![]() ![]() Gorman that I ultimately found the deeper conversation I was looking for. While it was Nee that named this new mental space for me, I knew that I needed to think through his idea of “surrender” in more biblical theological terms. This simple, historical idea gave me that freedom that I knew was the very heartbeat of Christ’s words, the lifeblood of the gospel. It is God, then who creates the resurrection in life. If we are crucified with Christ, all things are his, including my guilt, my shame, my inability. As strange and problematic as Nee’s little book is, his idea of “surrender”-Paul’s idea that “it is no longer I who live…”-helped me find freedom from a tyranny of guilt in my heart. ![]() Sometime later, Watchman Nee’s treatment of Galatians 2:19-20 in The Life that Wins was another one of these moments for me. I landed at my graduate program in biblical studies because a professor was able to articulate my understanding of God’s creativity in a way that I couldn’t yet find words for. Instead, it is more like we are finding words for an idea that has been quietly growing inside us. ![]() ![]() I suspect that most of us have had one of those experiences where we hear a startlingly new idea, and yet it does not feel new to us. A great post here by Brenton Dickieson, our guest blogger for July.ĭie Before you Die: C.S. ![]()
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