The Calvary Road Summary

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Chapter 1 of Steps to Christ helped me to understand that God reveals His love to us by using Jesus as a way to connect to us. Christ was the medium through which He could pour out His infinite love upon a fallen world (White 4). Before this reading, I never really focused on the fact that Jesus basically acted as "God's interpreter" for mankind. Jesus was able to show God's loving character to us by His own behavior and actions on Earth. It amazes me to think that Jesus came down from a place full of glory and riches to a wicked place full of chaos to die for a world that didn't even love Him. He knew that he would be suffering from hatred, death, humiliation, and shame but He still volunteered to die for us anyways (White 4). This reading …show more content…

If I want to benefit from the readings, I must be willing to let God change me and have faith that He will meet my needs. In order for me to help other people convert to God, I need to make sure that I am humbled at the Cross and forgiven first (Hession v). In Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of They Found The Secret, I learned that I have to go directly to Christ for salvation. Hudson Taylor's life showed me that to fully know Jesus and feel His presence, it's crucial that I recognize my sins and confess them first. Just like Taylor, if I do not come to God for salvation or trust Him to meet my desires, I will never experience His gift of unchanging joy. In Chapter 2, I was touched by the fact that Samuel Brengle saw himself as his greatest enemy for not effectively serving the Lord. He made me realize that it's important that we pay attention to our own actions and sinful behaviors that may be keeping us from God. This reading reminds me of God's affectionate character. He is reliable in the sense that we can trust Him to take care of us because He has plans for all of us and watches out for our futures. In Chapter 1 of Spiritual Disciplines, I learned that we need to discipline ourselves for the purpose of godliness in order to be Christlike. We can find godliness through the practice of spiritual disciplines. Disciplines are things that we do to make us more like God; they are not qualities that we may have or form

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