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The gospel is a mystical message, based on an instant and effortless union with God achieved at Christs cross.When you think of the cross, do you think of fun? If the answer is no then you have not been taught the cross aright.There is a delicious feast prepared for the believer. Nothing is more satisfying than the revelation of what Christ has conclusively accomplished for you. This book threatens to turn your Christianity upside down. No longer a struggle to please God -- the Truth will plunge you into a celebration of what He has done for you.With clear revelatory truths on the New Creation and the joys of the cross, Mystical Union promises to be one of Johns most revolutionary, life-changing works. The happy gospel of grace is about instant, uninterrupted union with God. This book lays out our most core beliefs on the scandal of grace. It promises to wreck your theology and cheer you up with undeniable Biblical truths on the effortless gift of perfection. As a believer, you are permanently plugged into open heavens ... no more dry days!
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MYSTICAL UNION
by JOHN CROWDER
Sons of Thunder Ministries & Publications
Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Mystical Union by John Crowder
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Copyright 2010 by John Crowder
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2010915409
International Standard Book Number: 978-1-928200-01-7
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I have been co-crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
Dedication & Acknowledgements
This book is dedicated to Benjamin Dunn a friend and co-laborer in the glorious gospel of grace. I can hardly take credit for anything youre about to read. The themes and ideas here were pioneered collectively through years of traveling, teaching and revelating together. I highly recommend his book, The Happy Gospel , as a fitting companion to this volume.
Thanks also to Georgian and Winnie Banov for their joyful and tireless work in unpacking Romans 6. I am so glad you forgot about everything else.
Thanks to all of our partners, friends and supporters around the world who are fueling the reformation at hand. Your willingness to run with the radical scandal of the cross is ushering in an ecstatic movement to the Body of Christ and the world. You are making history.
And thanks to our enemies. You confirm us in who we are. You teach us to forgive. You strengthen our conviction to never leap off this crazy tilt-a-whirl of grace. Longfellow once wrote, If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each mans life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Above all, I am grateful for a happy, loving and extraordinarily adventurous family. My wife Lily and our four children continually ride the waves of ministry life. Driving cross-country, flying around the globe doing home school in the back of an SUV. Yet we dont consider ourselves to have yet done an honest days work so far. For us, life is about the play . Thats the sound of the homeward call. Robert Capon once wrote of ministry, If you cant figure out a way of doing it for fun, do yourself and everybody else a favor and dont do it.
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Authors Note
When you think of the cross, do you think of fun ?
If the answer is no then you have not been taught the cross aright.
There is a delicious feast prepared for the believer. Nothing is more satisfying than the revelation of what Christ has conclusively accomplished for you. This book threatens to turn your Christianity upside down. No longer a struggle to please God the Truth plunges you into a celebration of what He has done for you .
It is high time the church gets delivered from God pleasing . As the apostle Paul said, Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good (Gal. 2:16, MSG).
Does happy, effortless Christianity sound scandalous to you? Does a daily walk of joyful, sinless existence seem like an impossibility?
If the answer is yes then allow me to introduce you to the gospel . At least the gospel as you may have never heard it before. The original version is so easy and pleasurable that its offensive.
There is a reason that the gospel was first called good news. It is a gloriously happy message of effortless union with God. It comes as an utter shock and outrage to the depressive human willpower that is common to religion.
I want to warn you here from the start that much of your existing theology is going to be flushed down the toilet as you read. Areas where you assumed to be an expert on the basics of the faith may prove to be areas of borderline apostasy in your theological suitcase.
I want to en- courage you to take courage. It takes a brave person to allow their world to be flipped on its head. We will barbecue some sacred theological cows. At times, it could be a virtual slaughterhouse. And perhaps youll find that youve believed some things incorrectly maybe even built a ministry machine on a bad foundation for the past 20 years. The best approach is not to get angry. Consider the bright side thats better than 21 .
Let everything you knew about the cross of Christ be revolutionized as you read. Allow your mind to be changed. May you comprehend the unforced rhythms of grace.
Introduction:
A Reformed Mystic
A Reformed Mystic
The gospel is a mystical message.
From the onset, you may want an explanation of that word mystical. And just to be honest, if youve been a professional pew warmer for any amount of time, you may be a bit squeamish about the title of this book. You may simply be asking: What is mysticism?
In our present day, unless you are a scholar, seminarian or church historian, chances are that you think the word mystical applies to the occult, new age or some other deviant spiritual practice. The term mysticism is wrongly used to describe anything under the sun that is deemed spiritual or enlightening. Writer Jerald C. Brauer rightly notes the vague usage of the word. He says, The term has been applied to everything from wild antinomian ecstasies to extreme quietism. It has been used to describe any longing of the soul for God, any first hand religious experience, various theosophical, occult, or magical speculations, or any vague mysterious esoteric systems. Often it has been equated with pantheism, romanticism, idealism, or any system of immanence.
No matter its improper usage. Mysticism is a word that started in the church. For centuries, when one spoke of the mystics , he referred only to those believers who experienced an interactive life with Christ full of intimacy and supernatural power. But various non-Christian religious movements have hijacked the word. This is why clarification is needed that we are talking about Christian mysticism and not some aberrant form of paganism.
Mystical union should not be a foreign concept to the believer, for we are talking about our union with Christ. We are in Him, and He is in us. Mysticism is an experience of this union with God. And the union is procured by Christs atoning sacrifice.
I define mysticism as: an experience of union with God a consciousness of the reality of God. The belief that the reality of God can be infused through subjective experience. Christians experience God directly through our belief in Jesus Christ, enabling us to apprehend spiritual truths that are inaccessible through intellectual means.
The apostle Paul was the churchs first mystical theologian. He used the Greek word mysterion twenty-one times out of the total twenty-seven usages in the New Testament. Paul almost always used the word in the sense that the mystery has already been revealed . Are you hungry to see the mysteries of God revealed? Let me clue you into the spoiler. Right here in the introduction of the book, I will reveal the plot twist that the whole Bible hinges upon. I am going to tell you the the mystic secret of God. Buckle up and hold onto your seats here it comes
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