Our church is made out of shipwrecks. That’s what we told Resonate last night.
Depravity is no easy topic. Something about being told you’re dead doesn’t sit well with the alleged living. The truly living love a good reminder of the bad news. Something in the believer stirs at the recalling of their resuscitation.
The truth is, God knows, we think we are a lot better better than we really are. We think we are good people, living good lives, and God got lucky when we joined his team. Not all of think this way all of the time, but some of us do, sometimes anyway, if we’re honest.
It’s hard being honest in church. Especially hard if you think church is a for saints not shipwrecks.
Freedom and honesty have forever been roommates. That’s why the Garden of Eden could easily have been called the Garden of Freedom. In pre-depravity world there was love and freedom and honesty and nakedness and no shame.
There was God and man walking together seamlessly.
Sometimes we think if it were us in the Garden we wouldn’t have taken the fruit. We wouldn’t have been deceived. Not us. We think to ourselves, “How could they?”
Truth is, you and I would have done the same. No doubt. How do I know? Because we choose ourselves daily. This morning we’ve already, most likely, in some way, reached for the fruit of us, rather than the fruit of Him. It was in our nature even before it was in our nature.
We’re all born to broken people on their most honest day of living
and since that first breath, we’ll need grace…
Embrace your inner shipwreck. Embrace the bad-news. In so doing, you’ll find the life-sucking sin in you loose it’s power. And in so doing, you’ll find the Good News in light of the Bad News to be such better news.
Here’s a video of the song we played last night at Resonate if you’re interested.