Both/and: Christianity is both God doing all the work of saving us yet and asking us to obey, to work towards becoming more like Christ. How do we hold these two ideas in tension while living in a Christian culture that always bends towards one or the other?
Greg references
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
RD reads from 1 John 2:1-6:
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
