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

cross where all its doing will cease. To do this is to enter the crucified life.

Now, to apply this to our obedience to the Great Commission, in order to enter the crucified life we must first see and acknowledge that—

We are Utterly Unable to Obey

We are perfectly helpless—utterly strengthless, and therefore totally incapable of obeying the very least of the Lord’s commands, and we certainly have no ability to obey this greatest of all his commands.

(1) We are unable because we are nothing.

Many of us think that we are at least a little something, but as long as we think so we are not in the place of power for service. We are nothing, and we have nothing to exhibit to the world. And even if we had, the world would not be interested in seeing it, for they are saying, not, “Show us what you have,” but, “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us” (John 14:8).

Now if, to satisfy the heart yearning of a dying world, we busy ourselves in showing them our equipment, our wealth, our institutions, our programs, our creeds, our denominations, instead of showing them the Father through the indwelling Christ, it will be because our pride and self-sufficiency have not yet been swallowed up in utter abandonment to him who is our all.

We must be so completely hidden away in Christ that the world will no longer see us, but the Christ