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Define the concept of “holy tension”. What desires conflict in this battle? How does the New Covenant help us face this tension?
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The tension is between who I was created to be and soul longs for and my actual daily reality. The purpose of the new covenant is to create a desire to be like God. it also is the only provision to achieve that way of life by resolving the Holy tension.
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Holy tension is the difference between the person God has designed me to be and what I long to be as a Christian and the person I am. The conflictual desires are anything I do to stand in elf preservation, and the “fixes” that I have believed would help, but never do. In the New Covenant in Christ, I am already fully regenerate, and he provides all I need in His provisions of new purity, new identity, new inclination and new power. God provides all we need.
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Holy tension is the battle between what God designed me to be as a Christian, along with the person I desire to be in Him, and the person that I am. The New Covenant helps us face this tension deepest in our soul and, because of the gospel, can relieve it.
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- Holy tension is the discovery of the distance between who we are and who we were created to be in Christ and who we would like to become In Christ and how do we bridge the gap. Knowing that it is God’s desire for us to be who we are in Christ helps us to believe He will help us get there and realize that He has already provided away through His Son.
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Holy Tension: When I’m aware of the tension between how I experience myself and what I long to be.
The desire that conflict in this battle is between what I was designed to be and long to be as a Christian and the person that I am (flawed). The battle between my present reality and my eternal destiny.
The New Covenant helps us face this tension as Christians by giving us relief within our soul as only the New Covenant through the shed blood of Jesus Christ can give.