When the church wakes up to the second half of the gospel, the world will wake up to the first half of the gospel.

 Acts 1:8 (NIV) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and

If consecration does not move toward transformation we will find ourselves signing up for another tour of duty in the country of Vertigo. 

The only way out of vertigo is kneeling with Jesus in consecration. 

Sin takes that which is good and twistedly uses it to bring about our death. But God takes what is bad and graciously uses it to bring about our life.

The commandment is not an exercise of the control of God over his image bearers but the care of God for us.

We put so much stock in our own felt experience of the grace of God that we lose touch with the actual fact of the grace of God.

Jesus runs headlong into such complex situations, so we must follow him there, even if it gets uncomfortable. 

Consecration is participation in the divine-human intermingled exchange who is Jesus himself.

We are either mastered by sin or mastered by grace.

The Bible thinks of perfect not as flawlessness but as fullness—the fullness of Jesus by the Holy Spirit.

We can no longer consider Jesus to be merely an eternal life insurance policy. He must become the source and substance of a transformed life.