Positional overcoming at conversion differs from experiential overcoming in daily life

Evidence

Consequently, the idea that a Christian can somehow fail to be an overcomer and lose his inheritance is a totally foreign notion to many. This fallacy (that we are all automatically overcomers) has robbed the church of the truth, clouded its perspective of grace, and played right into the enemy’s hands. Now, it’s true that “positionally” we are overcomers when we are first born again because Christ lives in us. (He is the true overcomer!) But “experientially,” how many of us really are overcoming the world, the flesh, and the devil, even after being Christians for years? Not very many of us! — Chuck Missler, The Kingdom, Power and Glory, 135

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the positional-versus-experiential overcoming distinction central to the book’s thesis.
• XREF: connects to: Doing God’s will, not merely professing it, defines the overcomer. — Chuck Missler, The Kingdom, Power and Glory: The…, 105; Being an overcomer positionally does not translate into experiential victory — Chuck Missler, The Kingdom, Power and Glory: The…, 1246; Outward practice produces inward virtue rather than merely expressing it — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 1021

Broader Connections

• Being an overcomer positionally does not translate into experiential victory #corroborates (0.95) — Chuck Missler, The Kingdom, Power and Glory, 1246
• Outward practice produces inward virtue rather than merely expressing it #corroborates (0.72) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1021