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 Overflowing Love of Christ

Chapter II

The divine power is not only the life of Christ crucified, dwelling in us, it is also the love of Christ risen, working through us.

Among the wonderful things about our salvation, none is more wonderful than the fact that God not only does it all when he saves us, but that he even gives us the faith with which to receive his salvation. “For by grace are ye saved through faith;” he says, “and that [even the faith] not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). He leaves us nothing to do but consent. He does it all.

Now if the faith with which we receive salvation is a gift, and if everything that salvation itself contains is a gift, this means that Christ is the source of all our Christian activity, the center and substance of which is love.

Christ gave some intimations of this before he went away. He said to his disciples, “My peace I give unto you” (John 14:27). Not a prescription for peace, but his peace. He himself was to be their peace, just as he was on the stormy lake, except that he was to be within them instead of simply externally present with them.