DENNIS PATRICK: EASTER REFLECTIONS |
Get “saved” and know you are going to heaven. That was my earliest impression of what it meant to receive Jesus Christ. Of course, that truth remains self-evident. But then what do you do between the time you accept Christ as Lord and Savior and the time you die -- or He returns? Do we impose our own set of rules trying to be “good Christians” in our own strength and risk reimposing a form of law? That would be a reversion back to the Law itself from which Christians were delivered. Either way God’s people never could keep the Law. We could also join the “white knuckle club” and hang on for dear life until we die. Is that what Christ’s death and resurrection was all about? Surely there must be more to this Christ thing than simply joining a religious club, going to church and Bible study a few times a week, and hoping for the best. In fact, there may be something else at play.
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