This Assignment Will Cause You to Live on Your Knees before the Cross
Here is the problem. I either forget to believe the gospel or outright harden my heart to the gospel, leading to self-righteous pride and hypocrisy. Here is the solution…
If you have not heard of The Sonship Tongue Assignment, let me introduce you.
Sonship is a discipleship course developed by Dr. Jack Miller and others through the ministry of World Harvest Mission (now called Serge). The emphasis of the course is to help Christians live functionally as adopted sons and daughters of God by focusing on the radical nature of grace in the gospel — that the same faith that saves us is the faith that grows us. The big question becomes, “Faith in what?” Faith to try harder and be better or faith in the gift-righteousness of God in Jesus?
For evangelical believers, we know that we are “saved” by grace through faith. No argument there. The trouble arises when we talk about what changes us deeply as followers of Jesus. Do we abandon the Vine and work hard at producing fruit, or do we abide in the Vine as that which gives us our righteous standing before God as fully forgiven and perfectly accepted children?
