"The Continual Atonement" and "The Continural Conversion"

"The Continual Atonement" and "The Continural Conversion"

SMALL SYNOPSIS OF BOOK

"The Continuous Atonement"
The sacrament prayers have to be given word-perfect. Everyone knows that. But when the priest flubs it, what happens? Even though the expectation of perfection cannot be lowered, the person giving the prayer gets a second chance, and a third, and a fourth, if he needs them. No matter how many mistakes he makes along the way, when he does finally get it right, the outcome is counted as perfect and acceptable."God, like the bishop, cannot lower the standard that we ultimately become perfect," writes Brad Wilcox, "but He can give us many opportunities to start again. . . . Perfection is our long-term goal, but for now our goal is progress in that direction - continues progress that is possible only through the continuous Atonement."

"The Continuous Conversion"

These words of our Lord refer to our initial conversion, but we should continue to turn to God as children, being continuously converted every day of our lives. If we trust in our own abilities, instead of God’s, we produce consequences for which God will hold us responsible. When God through His sovereignty brings us into new situations, we should immediately make sure that our natural life submits to the spiritual, obeying the orders of the Spirit of God. Just because we have responded properly in the past is no guarantee that we will do so again. The response of the natural to the spiritual should be continuous conversion, but this is where we so often refuse to be obedient. No matter what our situation is, the Spirit of God remains unchanged and His salvation unaltered. But we must “put on the new man . . .” (Ephesians 4:24). God holds us accountable every time we refuse to convert ourselves, and He sees our refusal as willful disobedience. Our natural life must not rule— God must rule in us.To refuse to be continuously converted puts a stumbling block in the growth of our spiritual life. There are areas of self-will in our lives where our pride pours contempt on the throne of God and says, “I won’t submit.” We deify our independence and self-will and call them by the wrong name. What God sees as stubborn weakness, we call strength. There are whole areas of our lives that have not yet been brought into submission, and this can only be done by this continuous conversion. Slowly but surely we can claim the whole territory for the Spirit of God.

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Monday, May 13, 2013

The Continuous Atonement by Brad Wilcox
I ll never do it again, we say and then we do it. 
Most of us realize that perfection is a long term process, but when we find 
ourselves making some of the same mistakes over and over again,
it s easy to lose hope.
However, Brad Wilcox points out that the Lord s Atonement will be available 
as long as the perfecting process takes. Even if we mess it up again week after 
week, he helps us start over.
Filled with personal stories and parables, this book presents sublime truths about
the Atonement in fresh, simple ways that will have you saying,
I've never thought of it like that before.
As the author urges, If at first you don t succeed even if at second or third or
fourth you don t succeed, don t find excuses.
Find the Savior and the blessings of His continuous Atonement.
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