Image via Wikipedia Christianity can help usNow that we have taken a look at the most important resource available to us, to help us improve our "Quality of Life," we can now look at how Christianity can help us.
The message of the Christian religion to us is our human condition of sinfulness, of powerlessness and essential human limitation is not only about a power greater than ourselves but about a God who can save us from our sinful condition.
"You are to give him the name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins." (Matt. 1:21)
Satisfying God does not come from the work we do, but from whom we believe.
"The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent" (John 6:29)
As the way, Jesus is our path to the Father. As the truth he is the reality of all God's promises. As the life, he joins his divine life to ours, both now and eternally.
"I am the way and truth and the life." (John 14:6).
The Christian gospel calls us to believe in Christ as our Lord, and in the sufficiency of his grace for all our needs, for all of life, for our death, and for our salvation. It calls us to put our ultimate trust in him for our salvation and changes in our lives.
Salvation is becoming willing to change, asking God's help to change, being forgiven by and forgiving others, forgiving self, seeking to remain honest with self, seeking greater knowledge of God's will and the power to do it, and sharing with others what has been received as a result of the spiritual awakening.
Cardinal Bernardin (a Catholic leader) spoke about a profound spiritual change that took place in his life.
"Now it is no longer, I alone. It is the Lord and I together. Indeed it is my weakness and vulnerability that become my strength because then I no longer pretend that I am in control, but the Lord Jesus."
The gospel's response to the problem of suffering can be summarized in three commands: (1) trust in God's grace, abiding presence, and his promise that all pain can work for good in our life, (2) deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Christ, (3) bear one another's burdens. The bible and our own healing; meaning, growth, and hope in the midst of pain, brokenness and human limitation. In the spirituality of the gospel, the ultimate is trust in our Lord, committing not only our living but also our dying to him - the resurrected one, full of grace and always with us.
The message of the Christian religion to us is our human condition of sinfulness, of powerlessness and essential human limitation is not only about a power greater than ourselves but about a God who can save us from our sinful condition.
"You are to give him the name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins." (Matt. 1:21)
Satisfying God does not come from the work we do, but from whom we believe.
"The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent" (John 6:29)
As the way, Jesus is our path to the Father. As the truth he is the reality of all God's promises. As the life, he joins his divine life to ours, both now and eternally.
"I am the way and truth and the life." (John 14:6).
The Christian gospel calls us to believe in Christ as our Lord, and in the sufficiency of his grace for all our needs, for all of life, for our death, and for our salvation. It calls us to put our ultimate trust in him for our salvation and changes in our lives.
Salvation is becoming willing to change, asking God's help to change, being forgiven by and forgiving others, forgiving self, seeking to remain honest with self, seeking greater knowledge of God's will and the power to do it, and sharing with others what has been received as a result of the spiritual awakening.
Cardinal Bernardin (a Catholic leader) spoke about a profound spiritual change that took place in his life.
"Now it is no longer, I alone. It is the Lord and I together. Indeed it is my weakness and vulnerability that become my strength because then I no longer pretend that I am in control, but the Lord Jesus."
The gospel's response to the problem of suffering can be summarized in three commands: (1) trust in God's grace, abiding presence, and his promise that all pain can work for good in our life, (2) deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Christ, (3) bear one another's burdens. The bible and our own healing; meaning, growth, and hope in the midst of pain, brokenness and human limitation. In the spirituality of the gospel, the ultimate is trust in our Lord, committing not only our living but also our dying to him - the resurrected one, full of grace and always with us.
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