A New Beginning

Jesus’ incarnation begins a new chapter in the Gospel story and our lives are written in that chapter when we repent and believe.

As we enter God’s story through faith in Jesus our lives have a new beginning. We confess our sin, repent of it, and believe in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. This new beginning sees a change in our hearts that is supernatural. As this new life begins in Christ, how do we regard ourselves and others?

You’ll likely continue remembering your past. It can, even, often, still affect you. Even when you are saved by Christ by the grace of God, if your sin led you to physical, psychological, or emotional pains, those will likely continue to stick. However, in Christ, you are regarded as a new creation. In the body of Christ, we accept people based on their profession of faith in Christ and as we live together we walk alongside one another in a journey of joyful obedience. 

Paul writes, “16 From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!” (2 Cor 5:16-17) In our community we do not hold our past against one another. Instead, we recognize one another as a new creation and that we are blessed to journey together with and towards Christ.