Christ, God's Greatest Gift

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Christ, God's Greatest Gift

Originally published in the Polk County Enterprise

At this season of the year, people who do not regularly attend church show up for Christmas programs, those who seldom pray recite elaborate blessings over family dinners, and people who are at best nominal Christians pay homage to God for the birth of Jesus Christ.

John 3:16 begins, "God so loved the world that He gave his only-begotten Son . . . ." It is true that the birth of Christ was a great expression of God's love for his creation. Unfortunately, most public rhetoric reduces the meaning of Christmas to "God showing He loves us by giving us a present."

However, the coming of Christ goes far beyond his simply being born. Christ's birth was just the beginning of his great work. God was giving much more than a child, but no less than the Savior of the world for all ages. John 3:16 goes on to say, "that whoever believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life."

The remainder of this article is now included in:

Christ in Us: The Exalted Christ and the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit

How does the Holy Spirit indwell the believer, and why should one seek that experience? In this collection of articles based on over twenty years' personal experience as well as academic study, the author relates Spirit Baptism and spiritual gifts to their source, the exalted Jesus Christ. He describes this Exaltation of Christ and constructs a theory of how the Holy Spirit indwells the believer, drawing from psychology and medical science as well as Scripture. Finally, he proposes a new Theology of Exaltation that sees the whole sweep of church history as the ongoing glorification of Christ and Redemption of the world.

ISBN 978-0-6151-3840-4 paperback, 192 pp., 6 x 9 in., with index and appendices.

God's Trombone Books by Paul Hughes

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