• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Divine Program
• The Divine Purpose
• The Divine Power
  • The Empowering Life of Christ
    • The Meaning of the Crucified Life
      • We are Utterly Unable to Obey
      • Christ Is Perfectly Able to Obey
    • The Method of Entering the Crucified Life
      • Following Christ to the Cross
      • Fellowshipping with Christ in His Cross
  • The Overflowing Love of Christ
    • The Love of Christ Impels the Christian
      • Christ’s Risen Life Overcomes
      • Christ’s Radiant Love Overflows
    • The Love of Christ Compels the Sinner
      • Love Compels Some to Rejection
      • Love Compels Some to Acceptance
• Every-Member Evangelism in Operation

The Divine Power

Part III

Introductory

In the previous pages we have had a glimpse of the desperate condition of an indifferent Church and the appalling need of a lost world.

We have found also that to follow the Program which the Lord laid out for his people is the only possible method of correcting the growing ills in the Church and of meeting the needs of the lost around us.

But this method is not being followed, in spite of the fact that it is simplicity itself, and in spite of the most earnest efforts of many godly ministers to get their churches to do so. Churches everywhere will follow other programs with enthusiasm, but not this one. What is the reason?

The answer is not far to find. This Program is altogether divine, and so it is impossible to carry it out except by divine power. Those who attempt to work by this method are shut up to the power from on high in order to get spiritual results. Nothing else will bring such results, and many are unwilling to pay the price for that power. It is too high for them, for it is nothing short of complete death to all we are and have.