Conjoined with the Lord and living from the Lord's Wise Love, each of us can become loving and useful, wise and intelligent, emotionally and socially mature, attentive and engaged, empowered and high-functioning, and filled with a profound sense of well-being regardless of external events. Let's live a fullness of life in Christ with the spirit of champions. Let's cooperate as our Lord God Jesus Christ develops within us the motives of saints, the wisdom of sages, the habits of geniuses, the wonder of scientists, and the strength of heroes. As allies of the angels, as faithful witnesses of the Lord, and as citizens of the New Florence, let's reach out to each other with the hearts of companions, the hands of neighbors, the touch of healers, and - in our homes - the skills of good parents and the bonds of the beloved. To a large extent, our ability to live a fullness of life in Christ depends on the clarity and fullness of our perspective. Every 21st Century Christian has access to a panoramic and empowering view of Deity, the afterlife, Creation, human nature, human capacities, human development, church ideals, social and cultural ideals, and the elements of a good and wise life. To understand our spiritual will and mind, we turn to religious faith and theology. To understand our natural will and mind and our emotional and mental capacities, we turn to the field of psychology. By integrating meaningful psychology into our faith perspective, Christianity can at last address our full inner and social development. The spiritual wonder of each of our lives involves what we become as we are fully actualized by the Lord's Wise Love.
About the Author: Mike Goodenow Weber, author of the 2007 book Visionary Behavior: Creative Intelligence in Action, has been a professional writer for 26 years. Mike serves as pastoral and creative director of Life in Christ Services - a ministry devoted to advancing Christian psychology, society, and culture - and as an editor of The Life in Christ Epistle, which addresses topics in Life in Christ. He is also a chaplain in the newly-forming New Church of Jesus Christ. Mike began his career in 1988 as a researcher and writer for the internationally influential journal on the science and psychology of human potential, Brain/Mind Bulletin, and for its publisher and editor, bestselling author Marilyn Ferguson. A veteran staff member or volunteer of a dozen campaigns for governorships and the U.S. Senate, Mike has written more than 2,000 speeches for America's elected leaders. Between 1991 and 2005, Mike worked on policy or communications with more than 700 state lawmakers from 45 states. From 1999 to 2001, Mike served as Legislative and Policy Director for the National Foundation for Women Legislators. Mike is an alumnus of the University of New Mexico. Mike was born in Milwaukee in 1965 and in 1971 moved to northern New Mexico, where he has since spent 29 years of his life. (Weber is Mike's adoptive family's surname and Goodenow is a surname of Mike's natural mother's family.) You can follow Mike on Twitter at @MkGoodenowWeber. You can join the Life in Christ book community - and the Life in Christ Services community - on Twitter at @LifenChristSvcs. You can email Life in Christ Services at lifeinchristservices@gmail.com or call LCS at 505-504-3543.