Jesus isn’t just another religious guy you can dismiss…he’s the guy who determines where you stand with God. How you respond to him is how you respond to God.
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We’re back into Mark, picking up where we left off in 2013. Jesus is in Jerusalem, in conflict with the religious leaders…pushing them to come to God honestly, repentently…to unmask themselves & give up their hypocrisy.
When we grasp God’s grace – the rich God who became poor so the poor could become rich – we start to see what we have not as a means of self-fulfilment, but as a means of being involved in what God’s doing in the world.
God’s Grace changes the way we look at the world and want to engage with its problems and those struggling in it.
There’s nothing that is as compelling as undeserved, lavish, overflowing love. That’s what Christians have experienced from God…and it’s too compelling, and too important, not to share.
When you’re saved by grace, you can’t help but see others differently. Particularly those around you who are saved by the same grace you are, and who God gives you to grow and be grown by.
Grace doesn’t merely change the way God sees us, it is the drive behind becoming who God intends us to be.
We have a God who speaks. But when we grapple with the idea of grace, we begin to understand the incredible truths of what God has made us. He hasn’t only justified us, but he’s adopted us into his family. And not just as children, but as heirs. And grasping this changes the way we listen to Him.
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It is the most unique, defining and life-changing Christian truth. Grace: that we are saved & loved & have riches lavished on us not because of who we are, but because of how good God is to us in Jesus. The first of a 7 week series on Grace.
