God is the sole source and mainspring of all redemptive action, but he is not the sole actor…. One must be careful not to convert man into an automaton or robot…. To give all the glory to God in the accomplishing of our salvation is not to reduce man to nothing. Yet we must also not say that man gets some of the credit for our salvation. On the one hand is the peril of a divine determinism or fatalism…. On the other hand is an egalitarian voluntarism… The act of salvation is a paradox or mystery which defies and eludes rational comprehension.
Donald Bloesch, Essentials of Evangelical Theology, 1:201
Work Out What God Works In
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.
Philippians 2.12-13
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