{"id":24025,"date":"2017-07-01T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/?p=24025"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:21:16","slug":"shouldnt-we-be-god-centered-instead-of-christ-centered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/shouldnt-we-be-god-centered-instead-of-christ-centered\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn’t we be God-centered instead of Christ-centered?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Christ Centered<\/i><\/b>\u00a0is\u00a0first in CoG7’s Vision of a Vibrant 21st Century Church. Does this rob God of His glory? Shouldn\u2019t we be\u00a0God centered<\/b> instead?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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To answer this vital question, let\u2019s explore the meaning of <\/span>Christ Centered<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The heavenly Father holds the universe’s highest rank, and His divine Son is the magnetic center of our faith.\u00a0Jesus became human so that we may be more easily attracted to Him. Christ has the personal experience of being made a little lower than the angels (like us), of taking on a servant\u2019s form \u2014 like His brethren \u2014 of being touched with the feelings of our infirmities, of being tested in all points as we are,\u00a0of suffering death on our behalf, and of calling us brethren. We identify closely with Him\u00a0(Philippians 2:5-8; Hebrews 2:9-18; 4:15). Among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Jesus is God\u2019s choice to serve at His right hand as our advocate, our intercessor. He who knows us best loves us most.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n No, being Christ centered does not take away from the glory of God. Devotion to Father and Son is not a zero-sum game in which more honor to one means less to the other. Rather, bowing before Christ and calling Him the name above every name \u2014 Lord \u2014 glorifies God the Father.\u00a0We make Christ the focus of our faith and devotion precisely because doing so honors God (Philippians 2:9-11). Since God has highly exalted His Son (v. 9; cf. Colossians 1:13-27), we may gladly do the same!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014 Elder Calvin Burrell<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Have a question you’d like answered? Submit it here:<\/strong><\/p>\n [contact-form-7 id=”23927″ title=”Submit a Question”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christ Centered\u00a0is\u00a0first in CoG7’s Vision of a Vibrant 21st Century Church. Does this rob God of His glory? Shouldn\u2019t we be\u00a0God centered instead?\u00a0 To answer this vital question, let\u2019s explore the meaning of Christ Centered.\u00a0 It does not mean that Jesus is greater than His Father. A kind of solitary ascendancy and supremacy belongs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":24399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[384,87,735],"yoast_head":"\n\n