CORY RICE / SAINTS NOT SINNERS
Recorded in December of last year, Cory dives into our identity as saints and invites us to discover what God says and believes about us. The guys talk about restoration, transformation, grace, our Father’s love, and living confidently in a relational understanding of God’s love. Cory shares about his new book, What If I Told You. This book takes the reader on a 21-day journey to rediscover ourselves; grace, wholeness, being loved and union are the invitations of this book. Pastoring and counseling and practicing community, in this conversation they guys enjoy discussing how God is better than the last time they checked.
For more on Cory Rice
Website: www.saintsnotsinners.com
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ADDISON BEVERE / SAINTS, BECOMING MORE THAN CHRISTIANS
The Bible uses the word, Christian, to describe followers of Jesus a grand total of three times. But there’s another identifier that fills the pages of the New Testament–a word we’ve mistakenly reserved for the halo-wearing elite, losing something profound in the process. Saints.
Identity, union, searching scripture through the lens of Jesus, and holiness discovered through community, in this podcast, Addison Bevere brilliantly describes that we are beloved saints.
QUOTES
“Saints are the people who wake up now instead of waiting till the next lifetime.”
“We are saints, together… Holiness is communal.”
“Religion is always the attempts of the lesser to control the greater.”
“We understand the law and the prophets through the lens of the Son, through the beloved Son…when we get that, the Law and the Prophets actually start to make a lot of sense.”
For more on Addison Bevere
www.addisonbevere.com
www.messengerinternational.org
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Hell, and Freedom
Recently, a friend who was wrestling through some of my thoughts that challenge the doctrine of eternal conscious torment asked me, “What if a belief in hell is what stops a man from raping a woman?”
“Then, dear God, that fella needs to believe in hell,” I said.
Look, if a future punishment is the only thing keeping a person from hurting others, by all means, that person might need to keep believing in hell. But let’s not pretend that person is whole or free. And whatever we do, let’s not give that kind of thinking a pulpit in our lives.
If we need punishment to motivate us in any way, either to avoid evil or to do good, then we haven’t fully experienced, nor understand, the gospel of Jesus, and we still have much to learn about freedom.
Freedom isn’t just about having the self-control to choose not to sin when you want to, freedom is also, and ultimately, about desiring righteousness, and it’s evidenced by not wanting to sin but instead wanting to do what is good, right, and whole…
Jesus wasn’t just free because He chose not to sin, He was free because He only wanted to do the things that His Father wanted to do. His freedom was birthed out of union, intimacy, oneness, and a revelation of His inherent righteousness. And it was for this freedom He set us free.
When I challenge the doctrine of eternal conscious torment, it’s not because I am seeking to remove punishment from a sinner, it’s way better than that, I am seeking to encourage sons and daughters to know the same freedom Jesus knew; to live empowered by grace through faith in Christ as righteous sons and daughters!
Praying grace over you today!