3 Tickets to Adventure
Want to add excitement to your life in 2022? How about learning to Faith Trek with Jesus during the year ahead? The journey begins with a question: Fullness or fraction?
Fullness or Fraction is shorthand for: Will I walk with God in the fullness of His promises, or will I settle for a fraction of what His colossal promises offer?
The FULLNESS or Fraction Series.
I learned to ask this question as I studied through the Bible in recent years. Months of intense study resulted in three ebooks about how God equips us to walk with Christ as His disciples.
Each title is like a ticket to adventure.
In Fullness or Fraction in the Gospel of John the Apostle John provides us many essential details about Christ as the source of life.
- John 1:1-18 is a prologue that introduces 10 building blocks of life in Christ.
- In John 1-12, Jesus presents the 10 building blocks in ever-increasing detail.
- In John 13-17, Jesus informs His disciples how we are given fullness in Christ to live daily in God’s grace, presence, and power.
- In John 18-19, Jesus is arrested, condemned, and crucified. By this descent into undeserved suffering, Christ won for us rebels forgiveness and abundant, everlasting life, both now and later in heaven.
- In John 20-21, Christ provides living proof of His victory over sin, death, and Satan, and He sends us out fully equipped to be ambassadors of His Kingdom both near and far.
Fullness or Fraction in Ephesians: Our Adoption Papers. The sub-title springs from Eph. 1:5, “God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.” (NLT) Here’s a summary of what Our Adoption Papers declare.
- Ephesians 1: In which we read the Preamble of Our Adoption Papers, and Paul models how to pray for awareness of and proper use of our vast inheritance.
- Ephesians 2: In which we grasp what God has adopted us from and adopted us to, we meet our brothers and sisters, and we tour our house.
- Ephesians 3: In which we learn about our family business and Paul teaches us to pray boldly about our role in it.
- Ephesians 4: In which we learn how to maintain family unity and how Jesus Christ, our big brother, equips us to grow up to be like Him.
- Ephesians 5: In which Paul prepares us for the challenges of adulthood with its struggles against the world’s darkness and evil, so we may ever walk in God’s light.
- Ephesians 6: In which Paul trains us for warfare in our homes and our places of work, and we learn how Team Trinity equips us to fight against Satan and demons, so that we may victoriously defend the farm and expand God’s kingdom.
Fullness or Fraction in Acts 1-12: Power Up! Because Acts tells the story of how the Holy Spirit empowers Christians to share Christ’s good news and expand His reign to other people, the subtitle of this book is Power Up! The verb “power up” refers to turning on and preparing a machine or electronic device that needs energy to operate.
The related noun, “power-up,” comes from elaborate video games in which players advance through levels of increasing difficulty in pursuit of some quest. Video gamers are always on the lookout for extra abilities, weapons, etc. that can be earned or bought. These new capabilities are called power-ups. The more power-ups you obtain, the more likely you will win the game.
Therefore, when Jesus says, “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you,” He is promising His witnesses the greatest power-up, the Holy Spirit!
Unlike video games, the Holy Spirit’s power-ups — His fruit and His gifts — are not earned or purchased. God grants them freely, by grace through faith. In Acts the disciples demonstrate how to use them to invite people to discover that Jesus Christ is their Risen Savior and King.
All three ebooks are available for free at the Faith Trekker Store. You may read them in any order.
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