The Four Dynamics

Christlife,     humanism,     sarx      and     the dark
cover the whole of human life.
A person who lives wholeheartedly within one of these dynamics,
embraces a mind set and a number of externals of life style ;
he or she perceives, thinks, desires, chooses, and acts habitually 
in characteristic ways.
We can look at what a dynamic includes if we look at the whole life
in terms of its characteristic context, perspective, perception, desires
choices and habits. Jesus' perspective emerges very plain in the Beatitudes.
The sixties saying  "If it feels good , do it"  expresses the self centered
"sarx" perspective.
The adopted context and perspective result in a whole way of perceiving
the world.   This is why Paul could exhort the Colossians to 
"Put on the mind of the Lord Jesus"   to see the world, history,  and self
as Jesus sees them all.
Some people have given themselves to dynamics so opposed to "Christlife"
that "they hear and hear again, but do not understand;
see and see again but do not perceive.                        Isaiah 6:9       Luke 8:10  

People hear what they want to hear
to justify their actions.

In a general sort of way, as we move more  and more completely into one of
the four dynamics, we want and desire more and more what that dynamic achieves.
We freely grow deeper and more fully into its characteristic set of desires.
The person who has grown more and more into Christlife, who has taken on more 
of the mind of our Lord Jesus, will come to desire what Jesus desires, and in
the end, want nothing more than to live like Him in every particular....even
laying down my life......of my own free will     (John 10:18)

Jesus distinguished Christlife from sarx when He said
"You cannot be the slave of both God and money"  Luke 16:13 

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