life-change
| This past weekend was packed with great moments. (The Indy/San Diego game was NOT one of them...) The most amazing moments were the three people who decided to surrender their life to Christ and begin a new life in Him and be baptized in to Christ. They now have a new birthday to celebrate. A spiritual re-birth day. At ACC, we witnessed this on Friday night. Again on Saturday afternoon. And then again on Sunday afternoon. The decision to surrender your life to Christ is a pretty big deal. In fact, it's the biggest deal this side of eternity. There are lots of decisions that are pretty heavy in life, (school, marriage, career, children, etc.). Yet not one of these decisions have personal favorable eternal consequences. They only have earthly (temporal) consequences. When we surrender to Christ and recognize that there's nothing you or I can do to be in a right relationship with Him. That's life-change. |
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| It's when we say, "I can't do it myself! I give up! My life stinks without You God! I've tried dealing with my junk all of my life, and it's not working! I can clean myself up enough. I don't have a clue how good is good enough. So I'm going to quit guessing how good I need to be and allow You, God, to make me good in Your eyes because of the sacrifice of your Son Jesus. I'm done trying. I want to finally allow You to come in to my life and make me whole. I want my life to be about you and not about me. I want to be a Christ-follower. I want a changed life. A life transformed." I witnessed this personally in the voice, eyes and body language of two of these new Christ-followers this past weekend. The best part was the smile on their face when they came up out of the water. They were done trying to do life alone. They wanted to do life with Jesus and with other Christ-followers in community with each other. That's called life-change. And it's the most important, humongous, ginourmous decision we can ever make. Accepting the free gift of grace through faith in Christ and His finished work on the cross. It's such a big deal that the angels in heaven have a party every time someone surrenders! "In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents." Luke 15:10 Life-change. It doesn't it get any better than that!!! | |
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