Rewind 2,000 years to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and history will show that a shift occurred in the message the early church was speaking in comparison to the message those around them had heard in the name of religion. Theirs was a message, not about a new religion Jesus had ushered in, but about God having gone out of the religious business all together, and solved all the world’s problems without any of our moral or religious endeavors. In Christ, God had poured out His love on sinners of the world, scandalously swallowed up our debt, and risen from the grave with the glorious declaration that we’re now free to acknowledge our brokenness, drop our mildewed performances, be nothing in ourselves, and simply rest in Jesus’ finished work on our behalf.

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This message was and still is a complete shift from everything ever heard in the name of “religion,” “spirituality” or even “progress” -