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

way through death to self before we can reach the ground where multiplication and fruitage take place. This is what it means to follow him that we may become fishers of men.

Now to sum up the cross principle, it is to lay down a life which may not in itself be wrong, but which, if we live, we shall live alone, in order that, laying it down, we may take it up again in ever increasing fruitage. This is following Christ to the cross.

Fellowshipping With Christ in His Cross

How may we fellowship with Christ in his cross? How may the crucified life become our daily experience?

By faith alone.

Faith means, you recall, that we trust some one else to do for us what we cannot possibly do for ourselves.

Then recall that “the just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17), which means that every minutest activity of the Christian life is performed by another within and through us while we trust.

This means a permanent cessation of all our own doing, for the moment effort comes in at the door, faith flies out at the window. Faith and works can never dwell together in the same heart. When one is in, the other is out.

This means also that we are even to cease our doing by faith, and not by effort. That is, we are not to try to make self quit its activity, for as long