Every Member Evangelism by J.E. Conant

• 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 Empowering Life of Christ

Chapter I

The divine power is the life of Christ, crucified and risen again, dwelling in us. The beginning of this indwelling was what the disciples were commanded to wait for when Christ went away, and what they received on the day of Pentecost.

This does not mean that they were not born again until Pentecost, for there is plenty of evidence that they were, but that the Holy Spirit began his official mission on earth on that day. That official mission is the baptism of all true disciples into that one body through which Christ continues his work of seeking the lost, being not only the head directing the work, but also the power by which the work is to be done; the directing and empowering being actualized within the Church by the Holy Spirit.

The disciples were therefore commanded to tarry until the Holy Spirit came to begin his mission of actualizing within them the indwelling Christ, and told that then, and not before, they would become effective witnesses unto him. They must be possessed by the divine power before they would be enabled to obey the divine command and follow the