Scripture brings believers to a point where they are enabled to meet the demands that God places on them.30 All believers are deficient in some area. There is some good work for which they are not ready (problem). They must be completed and equipped (solution). The tension in every passage is the movement from problem to solution. Sometimes the text reveals the need explicitly. Romans 12:1–2 plainly tells us that we need to be able to discern the will of God and that we cannot
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