Wade Poe

What's been the big win?  I would say seeing life from a different point of view.  Doesn't mean it's "blessed" in the traditional sense that a lot of pop culture Christians or churches would say it is.  In fact, it's probably the opposite of that, at times. Deconstruction of where you started with faith or belief can lead to a lot of things, including walking away from faith or belief in God.  But it also can and does include the option of throwing out what wasn't real or grounded in truth and re-sorting what you have kept in ways that align more closely with all that. From a lot of conversations and reading, I see that people who go through big things like divorce, loss from death of someone close, loss of health, lifestyle or identity, or other world-shaking kinds of things seem to grasp the idea most.  Probably because it is "forced" on to you and there's no "going back". Once you are spit out of what is known and comfortable, th...

So what is the good news of God in Jesus? It is that the life that was lost in Adam in the garden of Eden and the resulting sin that was brought into the world has been handled.   Jesus came into the world, died for our sins - all of them, past, present, and future - and after the resurrection, sent the Holy Spirit, so the life that was lost has been restored. Anyone who trusts in what God has done in forgiving all sin through Jesus can have him come live in them through the presence of the Holy Spirit and he will, forever. And that's it. ___________________________________________ What does that mean for us?   It means that God has reconciled us to himself.  We can simply acknowledge what he's done, accept it, and live in the peace with God he has provided. For the first Christians, mainly Jewish people by background, it meant they no longer needed to have a priest offer sacrifices on their behalf for forgiveness of sin or anything like that.   Jesus was the final h...