CS Lewis wrote:
The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. There is so much of Him that millions and millions of 'little Christs', all different, will still be too few to express Him fully. He invented all the different men that you and I were intended to be. Our real selves are all waiting for us in Him.
It is no good trying to 'be myself' without Him. The more I resist Him and try to live on my own, the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires.
I am not, in my natural state, nearly so much of a person as I like to believe: most of what I call 'me' can be very easily explained. It is when I turn to Chirst, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.
- Mere Christianity
The Master's Commission is a ten-month discipleship and leadership training program for young adults ages 18-25. Our focus is on growing in Christ-like character through finding our identity in Christ as described in the CS Lewis excerpt above. Flowing out of that identity, we learn to live and work together as members of His Body, and how to reach out in service to others.
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The Master's Commission New Mexico is a ministry of Joshua's Vineyard in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We are located in one of the low-income areas of the city and the heart of our church is see our neighborhood transformed by the power of God's love.