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

make these things facts. They are not now, they never have been, and they never will be facts. The only part of us that is not utterly helpless is the self-life, and that is very powerful and active. And when there is prospect of its activity being ended, it seeks to avoid it by becoming very kind-hearted, benevolent, generous, and even religious; but it is utterly incapable of doing anything spiritual, and therefore it can do nothing but get in God’s way so long as it is allowed the slightest activity.

And so the cross is for that life that is something. It must be reckoned as on the cross, so that Christ can make its activity to end. We are nothing, and when we come to a complete end of all our doing, then the cross has begun to operate in our lives.

We surely cannot have missed the illustration of this that Christ gave us in his life. As a man filled with the Holy Spirit he was constantly emphasizing his utter dependence on the Father. Whatever he was he received from God, and the words that he spoke and the works that he wrought all came from the Father. He was literally living the crucified life, because of which the Father was his constant enabling.

The conclusion is that we are utterly unable to obey the Great Commission. This must be willingly realized and acknowledged before we can see the other side of this great truth, which is,

Christ Is Perfectly Able to Obey

No one would think of denying or even doubting