One of the many challenging ideas the book throws up is the assertion that we are wrong to look upon our lives as broken and in need of repair. Asserted the author, "The idea that God is repairing us has replaced the Biblical concept that we are to be made new. II Corinthians says that if any of us is in Christ we are a new creation, not a repaired creation, or even a better creation.
The very center of our faith - and the picture that is painted by the only two rituals baptism and communion Jesus gave us to do - is the death and resurrection of Jesus, and the hope of the same for each of us. Jesus didn't call us to try a little harder, he called us to lay our lives down, take up our cross and follow him. It is essential that we conform our thinking to the Bible, not the other way around.
Nothing could be further from the truth! The good news of Jesus is not a self-help programme. Rather, it is life for those that cannot help themselves. It is the artist that makes his art. Our job is to give him complete access to the materials of his art, which is our lives. Surrender is the only thing we can do. If we know him to be good and kind, and believe that he has far greater wisdom than we do, and trust that his idea of us is superior to our own, then we will give him everything we are and have and allow him to do as he will in us 'that in the ages to come he might show the extravagant riches of his grace toward us in Christ Jesus'!
I love the two meanings of the one word 'grace'. It has a theological meaning and an artistic one. I see them both come together wonderfully in Jesus Christ. We have lived too long with the math paradigm. A nickel's worth of sin needs a nickel's worth of grace. This is death. The biblical picture is of Art. New life. When people hear the message and get a picture of who God is and what he can do with us, they want the whole story.
I have been particularly pleased that my friends like it! On a worldwide scale, we knew the book would be a slow burner - that it would be viral - and that is just what's happening. We are presently wrapping up an eight week DVD-centered group study guide that we think will be helpful as churches and other groups go through it together.
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Comment Bookmark Tell a friend Print version. I feel like I just got caught up with an old friend. Actually I think I did. So great to see what God is doing in your life Bob. Your life had an impact on me many years ago and your lyrics have ministered to me many times since. The opinions expressed in the Reader Comments are not necessarily those held by Cross Rhythms. Connect with Cross Rhythms by signing up to our email mailing list. That song is a gift from God to His people.
And if you don't sing it, you're going to have to answer for that. Not wanting to be held eternally accountable for withholding his talents and something so precious and powerful from God's people, Kilpatrick recorded the song.
The song has impacted millions, and, more than four and a half decades later, the song continues to touch the hearts and lives of people around the world. I didn't really know anything about what I was doing. I was making it up as I went along.
He took it down there and, as their worship leader, sang it every Saturday night for two years. Karen Lafferty, a Christian musician, heard it and she said she wanted to take the song with her over to Europe, and she did. I was completely taken aback by it," Kilpatrick continued.
And, I'm tremendously thankful God has been faithful to guide us all along the way, in this song and in the publishing business. Skip to main content. Home Page. Bob Kilpatrick. See More. Texts Tunes Hymnals.
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