Teaching Justification to Students
In justification, the God of love is pursuing his lost children, reconciling us to himself.
In justification, the God of love is pursuing his lost children, reconciling us to himself.
How grateful I am that, even in the midst of my sin, I will never hear my God say, “Why can’t you just be a better parent?”
Without Jesus, we would not have peace with God, forgiveness of our sins, the Holy Spirit living inside us, or the promise of living eternally with God in heaven.
Everyone wants to feel accomplished and celebrated and valued, but you have all of that already in Christ.
The good news is that our wandering doesn’t sever us from Christ.
What we as adults often fail to recognize is how the very teaching we believe is necessary for shaping “good” kids actually drives them away from Jesus.
Like our students who find themselves ensnared to sin, we all need a voice from the outside to rescue us.
If you are not a tree planted firmly by the streams of living water, then the whirlwind of fraternity culture will blow you away like chaff.
The Ephesian believers, just like many of our students today, were still finding their identity in what they did, or who their family was. Paul reminded them that their identity was now in Jesus Christ alone.