Exploring Christianity

In our original state we enjoyed partnership with God and purpose from God.

We lived without fear and shame, destined to live as those who were fully alive without ever having to experience death.

God gave us the task of extending paradise’s borders. He told us to go and

tame the world

                         make culture

                                                 establish families

Since God is good, everything he made was good and everything he made worked toward the goal and purpose he created it for.

This was fulfilment and joy to all.

But as anyone who’s lived for longer than a day knows – perfect peace and purpose didn’t last.

Humanity was deceived by evil and began believing that the creation (rather than the creator) offered us the greater fulfilment than God did.

We turned away from the loving, outpouring fountain that is God and we turned inward instead. We became rulers who ruled not on God’s behalf but in our self-interest.

We traded security for insecurity,

                                      purpose for emptiness and

                                                                           acceptance for rejection.

This is the world we’re born into now.

This is humanity as a fallen species, devouring and never being full,

                       never feeling totally at home.

But God.

Those two words carry the weight of the human race’s hope in the world.

God did what we were powerless to do; he stepped toward us, he drew near.

God came offering peace and providing relief.

The eternal Son of God entered history.

Jesus of Nazareth, God in human skin, suffered loss, rejection and death – for us and in our place.

And now

         When a person looks with the eye of faith at Christ dying on the cross, when they trust that his death was for them and their sin; that person can know their sin placed onto him.

       That person can taste Life at last.

After death, came life.

Christ our redeemer didn’t stay dead; death’s tomb broke open and the project of undoing all evil got under way…

        Easter Sunday was the first day of a new week of creation

Humanity was made last, but has been remade first.

God is beginning again, renewing and refreshing all things.

Today, he’s inviting you to join him in his work and make your business, his business.

He invites you to walk with him, to be his hands and feet in this new creation project.