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

divine pattern. Human mechanics are of no avail here; it takes divine dynamics.

And this is true to this hour. The Lord’s people can no more obey the divine command until they have become possessed by the divine power today, than they could in the beginning.

Now the only way to become possessed by the divine power is to come under the complete and constant control of the indwelling divine life, and this is impossible without such a living experience of the cross that self will cease its activity and the life of Christ will be enthroned and put into active command.

In a very simple and practical way, therefore, we shall seek to find what it means to be crucified with Christ, and also the method of receiving the cross into our experience.

The Meaning of the Crucified Life

Pride is the very essence of the natural man. It is seen in the sinner in his refusal to surrender, and in the Christian in his failure to keep surrendered. Self must keep doing something. To be compelled to cease all activity is the keenest pain to the flesh, because pride is cut to the heart. To be considered incapable—so incapable that nothing self can do is acceptable to God—this is intolerable beyond expression.

This gives us a clue to the meaning of the cross in experience. Absolute surrender to the will of God puts self out of activity; it consigns self to the