The Atoning Death and Power of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

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We recognize and gratefully accept the necessity of the death of Christ to be our substitute atoning for our sins, resulting in our thankfulness and humility, which is expressed both towards God and towards those with whom we live. We recognize the legitimacy of that condemnation and the mercy of the death of Christ. We will boast in nothing because we have done nothing, receiving everything. We will live as those who were under the sentence of death and who have been spared. We will commit ourselves to putting to death in us that for which Christ died and living in the power of the resurrection. This means that we will live in the expectant hope that God will empower us to overcome our fears, suspicions, jealousies, angers and hatreds. We will not expect this to be immediate or without pain and possible suffering, but we will expect and trust in God’s active help. Christ is the peace between God and ourselves and among us; therefore the divisions, which so often exist between people, whether personal, cultural, racial or economic, ought to be overcome by those who have come to know Christ. Though it will not be perfect in this age, yet, in our homes and families, in our friendships and our churches, in our workplaces and neighbourhoods this supernatural restoration of relationships ought to be realised, in part, wherever there is true Christianity.