It’s about identity! Who we are!
The purpose of the ministry
of CrossLife is to help a Christian understand their identity in Christ. The
center point or point of reference of the gospel is Jesus Christ and what it
means to be Christian. Christianity begins and ends with the “Cross-Life” of
Jesus Christ!
The death of Jesus Christ on a cross is the pivot point of
history and the central focus of the Christian gospel. In His death on the
cross Jesus was taking the death consequence of sin for all mankind.
Jesus as the God-man, who as man could experience the death
consequences of sin, and who as God could restore divine life to man
spiritually, allows man to once again be in relational fellowship with God.
The death of Jesus on a cross was absolutely necessary for
man to be indwelt by the very life of God. The Cross reveals the two fold purpose
of 1) death and 2) restoration. He went
to the cross, that we might have His Life! The “cross” and “life” are inseparable,
therefore, “Cross-Life”. Without the cross there would be no life. The cross
was a means to an end, “He came that you might have His Life.” The presence of
Christ within a human spirit, union-life which is spiritual solidarity.
When Jesus said, "It
is finished" we were "crucified together with" Him, this refers
to our spiritual union or solidarity with Him. When Jesus died on the cross He died there for
you and me, but He also died there “as you” and “as me”. When He died, “we died”.
We were "in Him" when He died. The entire human race was represented
by Jesus when He took the death consequences for sin upon Himself, but that spiritual-union
or solidarity only becomes personal for you and me when we receive Jesus Christ
by faith.
As a Christian understands who they are in Christ, they can
begin to choose to live consistent with what Christ as their life is doing in
them, allow His character to be manifest through them which is the behavioral
expression that every Christian desires to experience. The counseling,
leadership training, mission opportunities, and interactive gatherings of
Christian fellowship at CrossLife is based on the living reality of Christ as
your life, or as we call it the “CrossLife.”
God has been working through CrossLife since our
establishment in Vero Beach, Florida in 1993 to teach and encourage people to
function by the dynamic of God's grace in Jesus Christ.
Visit our website www.cross-life.org for valuable training material or visit us
in person at 2501 27th Ave. Suite A-9S, Vero Beach, FL. 32960
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