FIVE FACETS OF THE BALANCED CHRISTIAN LIFE

PREFACE

Who is a Christian? Is he one who pleases God by his own good deeds or works of      righteous living— like keeping a law code or following his conscience and not hurting others intentionally? Or, is he one whom God selects to be saved based on some criterion unknown to man?

And what does being a Christian really mean? Is “once saved, always saved” all there is to God’s Will for man? Or, does God have a plan for the Christian in time as preparation for His Purpose throughout Eternity? What exactly does God mean by the verse that declares, 

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10) NKJV
 

Does this verse imply that a Christian has a responsibility (or is it a privilege?) to serve God with his life on earth after his Salvation? What is the consequence for either being a faithful servant or being unworthy?

The purpose of this series of five booklets, Five Facets of the Balanced Christian Life, is to answer all of the above questions as objectively as possible by utilizing only the Bible as a resource. Deliberate effort will be made NOT to use technically-academic words to express basic Theological terms. Clear communication is the objective; not the obscuring of plain meanings that sometimes results from an attempt to be scholarly.  Any term that can be expressed by words used in normal communication will be expressed by those words. For example: “omniscience” will be stated simply as “all-knowing”;  “propitiation” will be described as “that which provides total satisfaction to God for completely removing man’s sin and its consequence”; and “hypostasis” will be described as “the inseparability of the two natures of our Lord—the Deity of Christ and the humanity of Jesus.“

These five facets are depicted graphically in the following chart.

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