Recovered In Christ

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Sunday, March 4th, 2012

“I thought of those six men back in Philadelphia who I felt had wronged me. They probably had, but I’d got so mixed up in the wrong that I was the seventh wrong man…. I began to see myself as God saw me, which was a very different picture than the one I had of myself. I don’t know how you explain it, I can only tell you I sat there and realized how my sin, my pride, my selfishness and my ill-will, had eclipsed me from God in Christ…. I was the centre of my own life. That big “I” had to be crossed out. I saw my resentments against those men standing out like tombstones in my heart. I asked God to change me and He told me to put things right with them. It produced in me a vibrant feeling, as though a strong current of life had suddenly been poured into me and afterwards a dazed sense of a great spiritual shaking-up.” – Frank Buchman

This man wrote six letters of apology to the board members asking their forgiveness for harboring ill will. He regarded this as a foundation experience and in later years frequently referred to it with his followers…who became members of the Oxford Group. Without which not one single recovery fellowship would exist.

What jump started this change of heart? He had already been a Christian for many years. Depressed, bitter and exhausted he’d taken a leave of absence from his ministry, as he sat and listened to Jesse Penn-Lewis preach about the power and simplicity of the Cross of Jesus Christ – and the transformation of our lives because of it, and the absolute necessity of a life centered around IT…he was led to a powerful healing experience with Jesus Christ. It’s time to revist the inspiration and Truth behind the movement that at its time saw 90% + success rates.

We’re starting with Jesse Penn-Lewis’ book War On The Saints….

“Deliverance from the power of the evil one comes through definite resistance on the ground of the Cross.” – J.O Fraser

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Gal 2:20