Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners (Union)

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Against the backdrop of a looming war with China, a crusade of volunteers hustles to find the vestiges of a lost race.

Yet even as the challenges and doldrums arise to the reader, Ortlund paces each chapter to provide comfort as we reflect on our failure and the far-surpassing achievements of our savior.If you’ve ever wondered what the Bible really means by ‘fixing our gaze on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,’ this should be the next book you spend time with. Uważam że ten tom ostatecznie wypada nawet trochę ciekawiej ze względu na wątki wokół toczy się cala historia. Think about an “angsty teen” and you probably conjure up stereotypes of late-90’s goths, teary-eyed fans wailing Dashboard Confessional in the mid 2000’s, or affluenza-stricken hyper-privileged suburbanites from 2015 to present day. All these images share one thing in common: they focus on the entire process and goal of spiritual transformation.

Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners by Dane Ortlund outlines biblical truths to help us gaze on the person and work of the Lord Jesus. You are restricting your growth if you do not move through life doing the painful, humiliating, liberating work of cheerfully bringing your failures out from the darkness of secrecy into the light of acknowledgment before a Christian brother or sister. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. The gospel of grace is as important and vital each day of sanctification as it was the second we first believed!

I also appreciated that Deeper includes a chapter on our union with Christ, a doctrine I don’t think is sufficiently understood or appreciated today. Understanding this doctrine helps us make sense of Paul’s answer to the question in Romans 6, “Why not continue in sin”? This lovely, easy-to-read primer by Dane Ortlund grounds our discipleship in the glowing center of Christianity—our Lord Jesus. Ortlund brings believers into the fullness of Christ, the emptiness of self-reliance, and their need for union and communion with God. He wants to “coach [us] into that single, simple, all-determining impulse of the heart: looking to Jesus.