It’s 4 days until Easter week at C3 and we are amped for our second annual Family Easter Experience “next” Wednesday, April 5th from 6:30 to 7:30. Nothing better to get your mind and heart ready for Easter as a family. c3church.tv/easterweek/
4 x 6 Plan | Read: Mark 8:27-38 & 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. (Mark 8:35)
From Andrew Farley: Grace Talk
Here again, we see Jesus speaking of the salvation experience. Think about it. If we’re to take up our cross and follow Jesus, where did Jesus go with His cross? To Calvary. Why? To die. Likewise, Jesus is telling all of us that if we want to follow Him, we have to follow Him into death. We’ll lose our current life and find a new one. This is exactly what happens to us at salvation.
At salvation, we follow Jesus into death, burial, and resurrection (Galatians 2:20; Romans 6:1–12). But if we reject the Gospel message, then we remain dead in our sins and ultimately lose everything. This is what Jesus means by “forfeit his soul.” Notice that one’s entire destiny is on the line in Jesus’ statement. This is clearly about salvation itself, not a need to continually die after salvation.
Action Steps
Bible: What is God showing me? What am I going to do about it?
Bless: Serve one person through word, action, or gift today.
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