Calling vs Potential
2010 May 6
“Everything in Paul’s letter [to the Ephesians] is designed to keep God’s calling (chapters 1-3) and our walking (chapters 4-6) in equilibrium. We cannot measure ourselves by examining ourselves in terms of ourselves, by evaluating ourselves against a non-relational abstraction such as ‘human potential’. Now can we abstract God into an impersonal ‘truth’ set apart from our hearing and responding to the words he uses to call us into life, into holiness, into relationship. We can understand neither God nor ourselves in any living, adequate, and mature way that is an impersonal, non-relational way. When God’s calling and our walking fit, we are growing up in Christ.
Peterson, Practice Resurrection, 32.
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