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Christ-centered devotions for a life of surrender, obedience and growth — available in several languages.

Today’s devotion

9 November

SACRAMENTAL SERVICE

“Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ....” Colossians 1:24

The Christian worker has to be a sacramental "go-between," to be so identified with his Lord and the reality of His Redemption that He can continually bring His creating life through him. It is not the strength of one man's personality being superimposed on another, but the real presence of Christ coming through the elements of the worker's life. When we preach the historic facts of the life and death of Our Lord as they are conveyed in the New Testament, our words are made sacramental, God uses them on the ground of His Redemption to create in those who listen that which is not created otherwise. If we preach the effects of Redemption in human life instead of the revelation regarding Jesus, the result in those who listen is not new birth, but refined spiritual culture, and the Spirit of God cannot witness to it because such preaching is in another domain. We have to see that we are in such living sympathy with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in souls the things which He alone can do.

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Why Solus Christus

Less of ourselves. More of Christ.

Solus Christus devotions seek to bring our attention back to Christ as the foundation and centre of the Christian life. Not hurried reading, but quiet faithfulness: allowing each devotion to make its impression on us and the Spirit of God to speak to us through it.

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OSWALD CHAMBERS · 1874–1917

Inspired by a legacy of surrender

For many years, the writings of Oswald Chambers have helped Gideon connect faith concretely with obedience and full surrender. Solus Christus builds on that influence, but stands independently and is centred wholly on Christ.

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