While it is certainly important to start your race well, it is much more important to make sure that you finish well.
To Know Him and Make Him Known
Sermons on Faith (Page 2)
God is always looking for champions to stand for him in dark times, men and women who lay aside all excuses and decide to break with the sins of the past and create a new legacy of faithfulness to God. 2 Chronicles 33:1-34:7
In the middle of the ongoing war between darkness and light, Jesus meets us where we are and invites us as the risen Lord of all to move through the whole world, leaving behind copies of Himself who have learned to LIVE as He lived.
God has called us to belong to Jesus and with His people. It is up to us to act as if that is true in our lived experience by affirming what we have in common and celebrating what makes us different.
A big part of what Jesus meant by “church” is the idea of “calling together” a diverse group of individuals into His family, so they can connect with one another and together carry God’s presence to the world.
I fear that the American church in 2021 has lost sight of its God-appointed purpose. The first step to rediscovering that purpose is to remember Who our Father is and who He has said that we are.
The final phase in God’s plan to show the world what He was truly like was a surprising one – to replicate the character and glory of Jesus in His followers and then send them out to show the world what He is like. Have you embraced the privilege?