JR. Forasteros - April 29, 2012
Kindness & Goodness
Kindness and Goodness point us back to creation. Both words describe what happens when people live the way God created us to. We easily chose to be kind and good when there's something in it for us - we give to get. But followers of Jesus live in the light of God's kindness to us. We choose to be kind and good as a response to what God has already done for us. We give because we've already received!
From Series: "Tree of Life"
Jesus' death and resurrection freed us from the consequences of Sin and Death. Now, the Tree of Life is open to us again. But what's all that fruit for? This series explores what it means for believers to manifest the Fruit of the Spirit.
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The Revelation was never meant to be scary or confusing. It’s a message of hope!
The Revelation to John is the Bible’s scariest, most confusing book.
It’s not meant to be that way. In fact, Jesus himself is giving this revelation to John for the Church. It’s meant to be a message of hope. The problem is that we are strangers to the text. We live 2,000 years away, across a huge culture gap.
But if we are willing to do the hard work to hear Jesus’ revelation through the ears of First Century Christians, the Revelation will come alive for us.
We can hear Jesus’ message of hope to all of us struggling to stay faithful in a faithless culture.
We can learn to hear the Revelation as a beautiful, powerful book, as relevant to day as it was then.
Additionally, I imagined how John would compose his vision if he were writing to the 21st Century American churches rather than the churches of First Century Asia. Read The Revelation to JR. here.
