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EXCERPT FROM THE APOSTLES’ CREED
THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN by Matt Chandler
In the first two chapters of the Bible, we see the world as God intends. Beauty, communion, truth, love, happiness, and work mark the first few pages of our Bible in a way that’s utterly stunning. However, by Genesis 3 sin begins its destructive path into the world, leaving all creation fractured and broken.
All who are Adam’s children (all humanity) have been diagnosed with the disease of sin. All of us are rotten branches because we were born from a rotten root. Theologically, this concept is known as the doctrine of original sin (see Ps. 51:5; Rom. 5:12-21; 1 Cor. 15:21-22). Too often we make sin an abstract idea instead of a deadly reality. Other times we limit sin to heinous acts of immorality. Compared to those acts, what we think, say, or do doesn’t seem so bad. After all, nobody’s perfect, right? J. I. Packer helpfully summarized the scope of our sin when he said: It is lawlessness in relation to God as Lawgiver, rebellion in relation to God as Rightful Ruler, missing the mark in relation
to God as our designer, guilt in relation to God as Judge, and uncleanness in relation to God as the Holy One. Sin is a perversity touching each one of us at every point in our lives.1 Thomas Watson, an English Puritan, once said, “Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”2 For some of us, sin isn’t bitter. It has actually become common, trivial, or even a matter of preference. But we can’t fully appreciate the depths of God’s forgiveness if we don’t understand the depths of our sin. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and continued on page 12
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do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 JOHN 1:5-9
Bringing sin into the light is painful and scary, but it’s also restorative and freeing. Providing forgiveness for our sins is at the heart of what God is doing in the world through the person and work of Christ. All other aspects of salvation (reconciliation, justification, sanctification, and redemption) find their hope in the simple idea of forgiveness. Describing his own sin, Augustine said, “My sin was that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in [God] but in myself and his other creatures. That search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”3 God’s people are the stage on which His forgiveness is made visible. The people of God are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others. 1. SYMMETRY: To experience freedom from your sin, you must admit your sin and believe you can be forgiven. 2. CLARITY: There’s no iniquity, transgression, or sin that’s more powerful than the forgiveness of God in Christ. God can—and will—forgive any confessed sin of which you repent. Sin can do real damage,
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however, when you don’t repent, believing it’s not worth dealing with. First John makes clear that knowingly walking in sin isn’t compatible with following Jesus. It destroys fellowship with God and the church. 3. COMMUNITY: If you want to walk in the communion of the saints, confession of sins is an ongoing ethic you must constantly practice. 4. COUNSEL: For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. MATTHEW 6:14-15
We love because he first loved us. 1 JOHN 4:19
Whom do you need to forgive? What will you do to keep God’s forgiveness of you in the forefront of your mind so that you can extend forgiveness to others?
1. J. I. Packer, Growing in Christ (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), 79. 2. Thomas Watson, “The Doctrine of Repentance,” The-Highway.com [online, cited 6 December 2016]. Available from the Internet: the-highway.com/ repentance_Watson.html. 3. Augustine, as quoted in Richard H. Schmidt, God Seekers: 20 Centuries of Christian Spiritualities (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008), 54. The Scripture quotation is taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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FEED THE PEOPLE AT YOUR TABLE by Lisa-Jo Baker
I don’t know about you, but when I think about the words service, calling, following Jesus, or discipleship I don’t always think about my refrigerator. Or my dining room table. Definitely not about my toilet or bathroom. I tend to think far-off fuzzy thoughts about important titles and business cards, auditoriums, book contracts, or radio interviews. And then there’s an afternoon when Play-Doh® is strewn all over the floor in hard little dribs and drabs, the counters are covered in plates, and there has been a steady stream of people through our house by the end of the week, and it shows. Then, I remember, that this is what service mostly looks like.
We are everyday ministers of the gospel. It shows up in our homes like neighbor kids, friends who need a ride to the airport, hosting a home group, making a meal for a friend, or even better, welcoming a stranger at church. We can become blind to our own ministry that takes place every single day outside the spotlight but is caught in the bright glare of heaven’s gaze. Because that’s where we will actually make our names. A name for being the place where neighbor kids feel welcome showing up unannounced. A name for opening the door even when it’s inconvenient. A name for making time, giving time, being available. Because our open front doors and sometimes nearly bare refrigerators and sticky dining room tables will be the places we literally practice what we preach before we dare go take that message anywhere else. I’m not always that good at making this obvious connection. I get irritated and tired and I like my own personal space. Admittedly, there are days I want to be wanted by important people with important titles more than I want to open my fridge to visitors who know me by name and
have seen me in my Saturday afternoon sweatpants. But while I may have those thoughts, I don’t want them to be the boss of me. I want my dining room table to be the boss of me, especially when I’m tempted to set my sights on something “better” than my right-now, right-here friends and neighbors. That table with the big, wide country planks that have crumbs filling up the cracks. That table with the squeaky chairs we constantly have to repair. That table that can seat stray college students and Tuesday night friends. That table that is doing its best work when it’s messy and has sticky streaks and an extra bench added down one side. That table and my front door are teaching me that the one seat I need to focus on is the one next to me, not the one across the room or the aisle or even the other end of the table. It’s the seat right next to me right now that is supposed to be my teacher. Whether my best friend, a new friend, a relative, a stranger, or one of my own children is sitting in it. Dear God, please help us not to miss the beauty of the seat right next to us. Help us to stop worrying about being impressive continued on page 23
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WE SAVED YOU A SEAT Finding and Keeping Lasting Friendships by Lisa-Jo Baker Explore our relationship with Jesus as the ultimate model for friendship. Nothing shapes us like the impact of a friend—it’s how Jesus radically and intimately connects with us. So instead of chasing perfection, overcome your fear of being known and find the courage to connect. (7 sessions)
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Lisa-Jo Baker has been the community manager for incourage.me, an online home for women all over the world, for nearly a decade. She is the author of Never Unfriended and Surprised by Motherhood, and her writings have been syndicated from New Zealand to New York. She lives just outside Washington, DC, with her husband and their three very loud kids, where she connects, encourages, and champions women in person and through her blog, lisajobaker.com.
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and instead to feed the hungry who show up at our tables. To feed them our best, our friendship, our time. To feed them our patience, our interest, our availability. Perhaps our friendships are only as big and deep as our hospitality. And I’m not talking about our decor or our skills in the kitchen. I’m talking about our willingness to invite people in despite our decor, not because of it. This is living. Not just the making room for it with clean floors and plates, toothbrushes put away, and sinks wiped down. (Why on earth can’t they ever remember to rinse the sink? I mutter every night.) No, this is what those spaces are made for. They hold room for the people. And it’s the people who make us extraordinary. I think too often I’ve kept one eye on the door, waiting to be amazed by strangers who might come my way. When really it’s those I know best—the most familiar and sometimes the most irritating—I most take for granted, who are the most holy representatives of God with us, Immanuel. When God moved into the neighborhood through His Son, Jesus, He literally became the kid next door, the friend from temple, the nephew, the grandson, the brother, the teacher, the best friend, the preacher. He was so ordinary in His regular, everyday roles that it stretched the imagination too much for those who knew Him best to see anything worth paying attention to in His message or His example. “He went to his hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, ‘Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers
James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, aren’t they all with us? So where does he get all these things?’ And they were offended by him. Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his household.’ And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief” (Matt. 13:54-58). Don’t believe that your people and your place are ordinary for a minute. Your life is so full of glory it will weigh you down if you just stop to feel it every once in awhile, if you stop to let it sink down deep into your here and now. I don’t want to make the mistake of ignoring the people right in front of me, the people who sometimes show up like neighbor kids with their soccer balls at inconvenient times, and my job is simply to open the front door. I can do this. I’m the only one who can do this because this is my house and my yard and I’ve been given this little plot in God’s kingdom. It’s my job to be a good and generous host here. Forget about conferences and stages. If I can’t pull out a welcoming chair at my very own dining room table, what business do I have opening a Bible or a book or a message anywhere else? All through Scripture the central theme, from Adam to Noah to Abraham to Ruth to David to Jesus to the disciples to the nations to us, is the theme of being redeemed by God for the singular purpose of becoming a witness of that same grace, mercy, and blessing to others. Over and over the promise is given that we are blessed so that we can become a blessing to everyone around us (Gen. 22:17-18). And we can start by simply opening our front doors.
Excerpted from We Saved You a Seat by Lisa-Jo Baker.
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