Return to Historic Christianity – Our Vision for the Set Apart Life
Anyone who knows us is well aware of the fact that every conversation involving Leslie and I somehow ends up relating to Jesus, one way or the other. But our interest in Jesus Christ goes a bit deeper than your average church-going folk – we are literally transfixed with the Gospel of the Kingdom. I realize that might sound a bit boring at first glance. After all, isn’t the Gospel just some simplistic message about Jesus dying and forgiving us of our sins? Oh, it’s far more than that! And it’s far more beautiful, dramatic, and reaching than most people alive on planet earth even realize – even 99% of modern Christians.
Leslie and I are ardent about something we refer to as “Historic Christianity”. In other words, Christianity the way it was when it really worked; when it was full of life, love, and triumph. We have spent our lives searching for the Christianity of Paul the Apostle, Saint Ignatius, Peter Waldo, St. John of the Cross, John Bunyan, Hudson Taylor, George Mueller, Amy Carmichael and the myriad of other saints that left everything and poured out their lives for the person of Jesus Christ.
We believe, with a zeal that makes some people uncomfortable, that Jesus Christ is interested in not just being a theoretical Lord of our life, but an actual Master and Commander of our very beings. We believe that true Christianity is only found when we yield our bodies to the control of Jesus Christ, and allow Him to do with us whatever He sees fit. And we believe, that with this sort of abandonment to our rightful Owner, the true Christian life, as it has been chronicled in history past, becomes evident once again on planet Earth in all its glory and grandeur.
This is what is meant by a “set-apart life”. It is a life fully given over to the control of God. A life that is not its own anymore, for it has been bought with a price – the price of Christ’s blood. It is a life consecrated, and literally, set-apart for the purposes, the Kingdom, and the glory of Jesus Christ alone. It no longer lives for itself, but for Him. The set-apart life is the most profound and beautiful life. It is a life enraptured in the pleasures and graces of heaven; a life enabled by the muscle of God to carry out the errands of the Most High on Earth; and a life intimately fused with the love, purity, power, joy, passion, and peace of the person of Christ. This is the life that Leslie and I live out in actuality. And it is our desire to introduce you to this exquisite and extraordinary version of living.
Anyone who knows us is well aware of the fact that every conversation involving Leslie and I somehow ends up relating to Jesus, one way or the other. But our interest in Jesus Christ goes a bit deeper than your average church-going folk – we are literally transfixed with the Gospel of the Kingdom. I realize that might sound a bit boring at first glance. After all, isn’t the Gospel just some simplistic message about Jesus dying and forgiving us of our sins? Oh, it’s far more than that! And it’s far more beautiful, dramatic, and reaching than most people alive on planet earth even realize – even 99% of modern Christians.
Leslie and I are ardent about something we refer to as “Historic Christianity”. In other words, Christianity the way it was when it really worked; when it was full of life, love, and triumph. We have spent our lives searching for the Christianity of Paul the Apostle, Saint Ignatius, Peter Waldo, St. John of the Cross, John Bunyan, Hudson Taylor, George Mueller, Amy Carmichael and the myriad of other saints that left everything and poured out their lives for the person of Jesus Christ.
We believe, with a zeal that makes some people uncomfortable, that Jesus Christ is interested in not just being a theoretical Lord of our life, but an actual Master and Commander of our very beings. We believe that true Christianity is only found when we yield our bodies to the control of Jesus Christ, and allow Him to do with us whatever He sees fit. And we believe, that with this sort of abandonment to our rightful Owner, the true Christian life, as it has been chronicled in history past, becomes evident once again on planet Earth in all its glory and grandeur.
This is what is meant by a “set-apart life”. It is a life fully given over to the control of God. A life that is not its own anymore, for it has been bought with a price – the price of Christ’s blood. It is a life consecrated, and literally, set-apart for the purposes, the Kingdom, and the glory of Jesus Christ alone. It no longer lives for itself, but for Him. The set-apart life is the most profound and beautiful life. It is a life enraptured in the pleasures and graces of heaven; a life enabled by the muscle of God to carry out the errands of the Most High on Earth; and a life intimately fused with the love, purity, power, joy, passion, and peace of the person of Christ. This is the life that Leslie and I live out in actuality. And it is our desire to introduce you to this exquisite and extraordinary version of living.