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Enjoy Life, Enjoy God


Dale Patterson

CHRISTOCENTRIC

October 23, 2009

Christian. It's not by accident that we are known by the word, "Christian." We are centered on the person of Jesus, the Christ.

Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me to be a minister of Christ Jesus...
Romans 15:15,16 TNIV

To be sure, Paul spoke of many topics to the people he ministered unto, but he was always Christocentric, focused on Christ. Eugene Peterson writes, "The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American Way." In other words, we've modified the Jesus message conforming it to our American ways.

Paul knows as Christ-followers we must break with ourselves, and the ways around us, and come under Christ's leadership, lordship. "I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done" (Romans 15:18). Not self, but Christocentric.

Enjoy Life, Enjoy God
Joyfully,

Dale Patterson