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It was one of those Sunday mornings we all have from time to time. Angela and her family were running late for Sunday school, a child spilled drink over his cloths and the floor. Another child stated that she did not want to go, telling her mother that a friend her age is allowed to stay home by herself.
By the time everyone was buckled into the car, Angela felt exhausted. After making sure that her children went to their Sunday school class, she went to the young couples' class. She noticed the bulletin board in her classroom covered with newspaper clippings bearing recent news headlines, disturbing words and images. The center was a large piece of paper spread over the clippings with one word -- sin -- over this provocative display hung a cross.
Angela was reminded in a powerful way that Jesus took all of our sins away when he went to the cross. To see the cross over all those disturbing imagines helped her better understand what Christ did when he took the sin of the world upon his shoulders.
"When we acknowledge our sin," Angela told the class that morning, "When we proclaim Jesus as our Savor, we are free to live life as God intends."
The apostle Paul writing to encourage believers penned these words, "As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith…" Paul understood the danger of slipping back to former ways of life or being "captive through philosophy and empty deceit." He wanted people to look no farther than our Lord Jesus Christ.
By the time everyone was buckled into the car, Angela felt exhausted. After making sure that her children went to their Sunday school class, she went to the young couples' class. She noticed the bulletin board in her classroom covered with newspaper clippings bearing recent news headlines, disturbing words and images. The center was a large piece of paper spread over the clippings with one word -- sin -- over this provocative display hung a cross.
Angela was reminded in a powerful way that Jesus took all of our sins away when he went to the cross. To see the cross over all those disturbing imagines helped her better understand what Christ did when he took the sin of the world upon his shoulders.
"When we acknowledge our sin," Angela told the class that morning, "When we proclaim Jesus as our Savor, we are free to live life as God intends."
The apostle Paul writing to encourage believers penned these words, "As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith…" Paul understood the danger of slipping back to former ways of life or being "captive through philosophy and empty deceit." He wanted people to look no farther than our Lord Jesus Christ.
