Most of you know that I’ve been away visiting my parents – celebrating a significant birthday in my mom’s life. Mom and Dad have a “winter place” here in Largo, Florida in what is called a “manufactured home community”. In their recent newsletter, a columnist used the following words: our very lifestyle is being threatened.
Lifestyle. People have lifestyles – and most of them are more consistent with the sins of man than with the Gospel of Jesus. The task of Wellborn Baptist Church will be to help those who come our direction to evaluate their lifestyles with the biblical lifestyle, the Christian lifestyle.
Problem is, our own lifestyles require the same evaluation. The message of hope is both life giving and a threat. When we come to Jesus, He changes us. At the very same moment, we have a new life with Christ and at the same instant “our very lifestyle is being threatened”. Threatened because it is more consistent with the sins of man than with the Gospel. Maturity in Christ is the ever-changing movement away from our “lifestyle” and into conformity to His character; His love and His direction for our lives.
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