We live in a world that rewards performance. It’s ingrained in us from an early age. Tests, sports, education, manners; almost everything. And this performance-based mindset affects our view of and relationship to God. We can believe we must perform to certain standards to be in right relationship with God. We feel that when we do the right thing, God turns his chair toward us. We feel that when we do the wrong thing, He turns His is back on us. As such, we begin creating religious performance-based rules for ourselves and then live by them, in bondage. But Jesus didn’t come to start a religion. He came to restore a relationship.
When Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life,” He was claiming to be the source of both. But Jesus does more than...
The Old Testament. Is it a rule book something else? Do we align our lives around it or simply know it? What is it?...
Our faith grows, not just by accumulating more knowledge or believing, but by following Jesus one next step at a time.
