This Sunday we will begin a new sermon series called Christ on the Cross: A Study of Life Giving Words.
This is a study of spiritual life giving words used in the Bible to explain why Jesus died on the cross. The Christ on the Cross series will address the core of our relationship with Jesus Christ.
Through a study of key words, we will:
(1) Understand their meaning. These words usually are not used in most conversations during the week, but they represent concepts that are critical in our relationship with God and so we need to be familiar with them.
(2) Learn to both personal identify with Christ on the Cross words and relate them our daily lives.
(3) The words of Christ on the Cross form the foundation to explaining why the Good News is Good News. So ultimately they are very useful in evangelism.
The key words are:
Substitution
Atonement
Sacrifice
Regeneration
Salvation or saved
Redemption
Justification
Join us this Sunday at 10:45am at Lakeview Community Church for this new sermon series by Pastor Paul Kozar.
Our reading this week will come from 2 Corinthians 5:14-21
14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
