I love watching the politics of America unfold. I don’t necessarily enjoy the extreme commentators on either side. But, oh how I like studying the dynamics of what makes things move and what shuts people down. Do we not live in similar workings?
The thing I took away from both conventions is the concerted effort to persuade about the “New”. New is such a boost to morale, to direction, and to hope. Of the kingdom Jesus was quick to chime that men and women can be made new. To be born again is the greatest plea of Christianity.
“Born again” has been displaced into yawning sloganville. It’s not new anymore and the phrase, “I’m born again”, may have lost its luster. Yet, it shouldn’t. Discovering an old person can start life over and become a new person is beyond the wildest of wild imaginations.
Congregations need to ask, “What are we offering new?” Are we offering a new day, new life, new start, new vision, new outlook, new possibilities, and new hope? I think we carry the key to igniting life in the church and in the community by offering the “New” Testament concept of new!
Due to His mercies we are new every morning! The conventions are over. The church isn’t. We should be wide-eyed to the possibilities that we can provide the most basic tenet which still inspires the world….newness of life!
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