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.
Part 6: Grace
Starting Point
February 7, 2021 • Ronnie Rothe
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Part 2: The Problem
January 10, 2021 • Ronnie Rothe
Let’s talk about sin baby…let’s talk about you and me. OK but seriously, sin is an uncomfortable word. It’s so uncomfortable that we’ve pretty much abandoned it. We do everything we can do avoid that word. But here’s the real deal. Sin harms our relationship with God and our relationships with other people. So we must talk about it.
Part 3: Right Standing
January 17, 2021 • Ronnie Rothe
The introduction of sin into the human experience left God with somewhat of a dilemma if you will. Where would He begin the task of restoring the world from the effects of sin? Best we can tell, He had a choice to make. Either destroy the sin-infected world and start over, or roll up His sleeves and go to work fixing it, restoring everything to what He originally created it to be.