Abiding

''Abide in me as I abide in you... As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.''

Abiding is not a word we have much use for in everyday conversation. Yet Ben Quash shows that this one concept is central to the Christian life.

Abiding, as Quash demonstrates, has the sense of full personal commitment, a quality of solidarity that ''waiting'' just cannot convey. It speaks of the ...