Faith!

For Tuesday, August 1, 2023:

Romans 3:27-28 NLT: “Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.”

This is Christian Theology in a nutshell. It’s not what most people would expect. Most non-believers assume that to be a Christian, you would have to follow certain rules and achieve certain goals. Then you could graduate from the Jesus School of Theology!

But that’s not how it works. That salvation would be a free gift requiring only faith is counterintuitive. It seems almost too easy. But then the good behavior, our giving nature, the loving our neighbor, come from our gratitude for what Jesus did for us, not from adherence to Laws. Jesus took away the sins of the world and included believers in the Kingdom! He has prepared your place. All is ready when it’s your time.

Believers have a reservation in the hereafter. Count on it. Jesus said so!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship