J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life (Biblia.com)

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Do we have the wrong map for the Christian life? Life's inconveniences, disappointments, and trials can leave us confused, cynical, and eventually bitter. But the apostle Paul traces out the path of dying and rising with Jesus—what Paul Miller calls the "J-Curve"—as the normal Christian life. The J-Curve maps the ups and downs of daily life onto the story of Jesus. It grounds our journeys...

on the cross. If we focus on our justification in the abstract, it can become a way of feeling good about ourselves. Justification is something we rejoice and rest in, but we look to Jesus and his death for us. Fig. 4A. Justification by Faith Now let’s look at the justification I was seeking: justification by Jill. While the chart below, Justification by Jill (Fig. 4B), mirrors the chart just above, Justification by Faith (Fig. 4A), instead of looking to Jesus’s righteousness: 1. I point to my own

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