"For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again."
~ 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
If we truly lived out the above verses every minute of every day, how would our lives be different?
Below are a few quotes by Eric Ludy from his book, The Bravehearted Gospel:
"The bravehearted path is all about dying to live, living to die! It's a violent and effusive love story between a Bridegroom and His bride, in which the Bridegroom radically spends His life to rescue His bride and then the bride, in turn, radically spends her life for the fame and renown of her Groom."
"The bravehearted path is all about drilling the seriousness, importance, and power of this Someone [Christ] down into the bedrock of our souls. And when this Someone captivates our every thought, is effused into every action, and is interwoven into our every word spoken, then suddenly His passions become our passions.
The Bravehearted Gospel asks men and women to let go of their lives and grab hold of the life of Christ. It calls for us to radically trust the treasure map (aka Scripture) and spend our entire life, health, resources, and reputation to find what it's pointing toward."
"The spirit of the Bravehearted Gospel demands that the Christian life be spent and not preserved."
"This life is all about Jesus Christ."
"A Bravehearted life is all about one thing -- Jesus! Jesus must be known, Jesus must be seen, Jesus must be praised, Jesus must be honored, and Jesus must be glorified. This is the most basic element of the bravehearted life---a passionate disregard for self so that the person of Jesus might evidence himself with vivid clarity through the human existence."
Dear Amy,
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! The word "Passionate" jumped off the page at me! This is a life, not for the faint-hearted, no, truly it is a vibrant, exciting life for the Bravehearted! Thanks! I needed this reminder!
Mrs. G.