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.
What makes a community uncommon is when authentic relationships are forming and flourishing. Are you intentionally helping anyone be transformed into who God created...
The fruit of love is the primary proof of following Jesus. What is the way I’m loving, proving?
God is with us to comfort us with peace, but we must choose to be filled with it.
