Life or Death Culture

We gather together as Christians, those who were dead in our sins and transgressions, removed from God and any hope of life, and glad by our nature to be separated from Him.  But God is life and the source of all life, and we come celebrating God and the life that He gives.  In so doing, we are bound to determine what is life by His good Word and to declare the Gospel is to declare the Gospel of Life.  From conception to the time the last breath is drawn and the last beat of the heart has occurred, God is sovereign and the authority over the life of every man, woman and child.  He is the author of life.

When a culture rejects Jesus Christ, it rejects life.  And culture is nothing more than the outworking of one’s theology and worldview.  When we reject Christ, we have abandoned any reason for life but we also end up embracing death – and so our culture of death continues in this land - and it is morphing and twisting in many ways.  And so we have fruitless unions and we offer the fruit of our wombs to the god of our culture, the god called convenience, the god called choice.

The church must stand as a city on a hill in these dark days.  We must testify to life and to the One Who gives life.  We must be the place where those lost in darkness and shame, even those who have partaken of the darkness and shame of murdering their children, can find the gift of repentance, faith, forgiveness and healing.  We must be the place where people find Jesus.

Come and worship then, the One who determined you would live before the foundations of the world, who determined you would be saved through the blood of His Son, and who determined that you would be a voice in the wilderness with the church, standing against darkness and death and proclaiming the Way of life, of light, of goodness and meaning and purpose and glory for every human created in the image of God.  Come and worship the Lord Jesus Christ.