Sunday, April 24, 2011

We Believe

Why are we here? Because we believe.

[We] believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead.

[We] believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Christian Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. AMEN.

- the Apostles Creed

We're here because we serve a God far bigger than ourselves.

"It is the change from being confident about our own efforts to the state in which we despair of doing anything for ourselves and leave it to God." - CS Lewis

And we're here in the freedom we have in Christ.

"Saving faith may thus be defined as a voluntary turning from all hope and grounds based on self merit, and assuming an attitude of expectancy toward God, trusting Him to do a perfect saving work based only on the merit of Christ." - LS Chafer

Happy Easter, everyone! He has risen indeed!

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