THE SURPRISE OF VICTORY IN CHRIST by dav id c a rl
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ictory in Christ. It’s what many Christians want. It’s what we’ve been promised by Christ himself. But a number of questions come to my mind, questions like: “Why don’t we see more victory in Christ?” or “Why don’t I have more victory in Christ myself ?” Theologian J. P. Moreland made a very disturbing statement: “It is possible
for 95 per cent of Christians in any generation to have their conceptualization of what Christianity is be fundamentally flawed.” For example, if we had been alive during the Crusades, most “good Christians” would have been certain that they could earn admission to heaven by going to fight in the Holy Land. All this to say, it is sometimes dif-
