Surrender
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- Thesis 17: Surrender is giving up on ourselves, not giving up our sins. Giving up our sins is the result of giving up on ourselves and seeking God.
- Thesis 18: Working to give up our sins can keep us from giving up on ourselves.
- Thesis 19: No one can crucify himself or bring himself to surrender. Someone else must do that for him.
- Thesis 20: We are controlled by God or Satan. The only control we have is to choose who will control us.
- Thesis 21: The surrender of the will is the surrender of the power of choice, but we use our power of choice to surrender it. We give up our power of choice toward behavior; we keep our power of choice toward relationship.
- Thesis 22: The only deliberate effort in the Christian life is to seek God. Spontaneous effort toward other things will result.
- Thesis 23: Growing Christians experience on-again, off-again surrender. Sometimes they de-pend on God, sometimes on themselves.