I respond to the gospel with daily repentance and faith.
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‘The Holy Spirit changes me through the gospel.’ That’s what we saw with Principle 4. So what about my role? This is one of the great, creative tensions of the Christian faith. We may err on the side of passivity: the Holy Spirit does it all and I do nothing — the ‘let go and let God’ approach. Or we may err on the side of activism: the Holy Spirit is functionally absent and we do everything — a ‘get on and forget God’ approach.
So is the answer a kind of balancing act in which the Holy Spirit and I are equal partners on a 50:50 basis? No, this is also a serious error. The gospel shows that God has given everything for our salvation and he asks for everything in return. The gospel is free, but it’s not cheap. So we’re not talking about a 50:50 arrangement, but a 100:100 one.
