While we were enemies. When we ran from God. He showed us kindness. When we hated Him, He showed us mercy. Jesus can ask this of us. Because it’s exactly what He’s done for us.
Imagine if this election year, Christians were known for love. Not their fight for self-preservation. Imagine if we at Christ Community were known for mercy. Not for the long list of people who “just don’t get it.”
What if at work or school, you were known for compassion toward the people no one else cares for? What if in your home, you made a goal to always be the one who says I’m sorry first?
Church, imagine if we loved like this.
A Jesus Community (Part 2)
Luke 6:27-45
February 23, 2020
Nathan Miller
From Series: "Rediscovering Jesus - Olathe Campus"
Jesus of Nazareth. There have been no shortage of opinions offered, books written, responses given to who Jesus was. Some worshipped Him as God. Others thought Him a criminal. The controversy surrounding Jesus followed Him through His life, and it has continued 2,000 years after His death. There is no masking Jesus’ enormous influence on human history.
In the midst of all this noise, who was Jesus? Why is He so important to human history? Is Jesus simply someone who agrees, confirms, and approves of everything we already thought and believed?
A few decades after the death of Jesus, a man named Luke was wrestling with those questions with his friend, a friend uncertain as to who Jesus was. So Luke set about rediscovering Jesus. He asked Jesus’ friends, he listened to Jesus’ enemies, and worked hard to give us the account of just who Jesus really was.
Luke was convinced Jesus had good news for us. Life changing news. Rest for the anxious. Healing for the broken. Freedom for the trapped. Luke rediscovered Jesus.
He wrote about Jesus, so that we could rediscover Jesus.
