March 4 / 5
Sin as Rebellion by Pastor Nathan Schultz

Sin is a loaded word.  For those outside the faith, it’s a funny and dated religious term.  For Christians, we repeat it so often that it loses its bite.  Scripture reveals that sin is worse than we know.  Jesus is so serious about it that he says, “If your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out.”  What is it about sin that’s so fatal it would require Jesus to go to the cross?  

Today we talk sin as rebellion. Rebellion is crossing good boundaries God set to give us life. In our rebellion, we have made a mess of our relationship to God, how we relate to one another, and even our relationship to ourselves. The answer? A Jesus who connects us to himself in all circumstances.

Genesis 3:1-24; Matthew 27:15-23