Happy Easter everyone! I just wanted to share something that my pastor was telling us during our message that really spoke to me.
But before I get into that...I went to the show The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg that Living Water put on today and it was awesome! Props to everyone who put all that effort into it! It was really a blessing to watch it :).
Anyways back to the sermon. The topic was the typical Easter Sunday sermon about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But there was one thing he pointed out thats been on my mind the whole day after the sermon. The passage was from John chapter 19 and 20, and he pointed out that the book of John is different from the other Gospels because he doesnt focus so much on the physical evidence, the miracles that Jesus performed. He is more interested in the changed lives of the disciples and the individuals that encountered Christ. The radically reformed lives of the disciples is the testimony to the saving grace of Christ.
This got me thinking a lot. If they were lying...if Christ was a lie and a fraud that would mean the disciples died for a lie. And when you look at the lives of the disciples all of them died horrible deaths for Christ's sake. I think it s hard enough to die for something that is just, let alone something that is false. On the other hand, if Christ is real and if encountering him radically changed them in such a way, what does that show about our lives? Can we truly say that we are saved and that we encountered the love of Christ if we continue to chase after the passions of the world and not after the love of God?
I guess this passage just made me do a lot of self reflecting. We also watched this sermon done by Paul Washer in our fellowship. This guy is amazing and if you have some time you should really check him out. Ill post the link. Some of it is a bit hard to swallow but he really gets you thinking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncEhCvrVgQ
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:] it's so awesome to see how all the things we've been learning in the past few months have been affecting YOU in such a personal way. thanks for sharing your thoughts! and let's ask God to bear fruit in us - through our thoughts, words, actions, relationships, tasks, everything! and hopefully we can come to a place where, instead of being distraught with question after question about our salvation (if that is the case), we can rely on God for his mercy and seek him to be lord over our lives, simply knowing that he is God, that he is Love, and that he is true. hmm, this entry makes me think, what does a True Christian look like...? what does it mean to truly take up the cross?
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