Growing Up In Jesus Through the Trails We Face

We are the called-out ones.  We are members of the Body of Christ.  We are justified by faith in Christ.  Theses are marvelous positional truths, and yet we are allowed by God to be partakers of the Sufferings of Christ.  This is a very important doctrine that has been neglected in the post-modern church.  The trails that we face come into our lives through the permissive will of God.  God allows suffering in our lives because we grow thereby.  Through suffering we learn to depend on God.