J. Rufus Moseley was a scholar and university professor who left the accolades of academia and ministered to the down-and-outs of society while living a life in the Holy Spirit which he described as "Life as Love," a simple life of joy that one rarely encounters. His life consisted of gratitude, of "littleness," and above all, love.
The following is from an article by J. Rufus Moseley as recorded in the book Ineffable Union With Christ: Living in the Kingdom (Selected Writings of J. Rufus Moseley, 1927-1937) compiled and edited by Gregory S. Camp:
"The primary failures of historic Christianity have been the substitution of ritualism for the true life of worship of God in Spirit and in Truth, and in substitution of doctrines about faith and grace for the grace and faith that works by love, and the grace that is overflowing with compassion, mercy, and goodness. Those who feel they can continue in grace, apart from becoming full of grace, seem to miss the way almost as much as those who feel they can substitute ritualism for the life of the Spirit.
"It all comes back to restoring us and keeping us in union with Christ, and through the union making us like Him in nature, in spirit, and in active goodness. This work starts with God and ends with God, and its highest achievement with us is making us, through free choice and great joy, co-workers with Him in the tasks of time and eternity.
"While we have to be born of the Spirit before we can start to grow up in the likeness of Christ, while we have to be Baptized by the Holy Ghost into the church which is His body, we have to live in the Spirit and in fruit-bearing union in order for God's loving purposes concerning us to be wrought out in experience."
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