In Christ, the church is one family marked by an uncanny “Jesus-likeness,” living life future-back,

Christians talk a lot about “the gospel.” We say we’ve “believed the gospel,” “preach the gospel,” “live by the gospel.” Yet if someone stopped you on the street and asked, What exactly is the gospel?, what would you say? Most of us would instinctively answer something like: Jesus died for my sins. And to that we add, "by Grace I am saved, I can go to heaven when I die." That is certainly part of the gospel. But it is not the whole gospel. And if we stop there, we end up with

The earth is the Lord’s. Every street, every soul, every space belongs to Him

A letter to myself to live as Jesus would.

God’s truth doesn’t crush us. It enlivens us. His presence stirs the soul and as we hear Him say, "You don’t have to hide anymore, you are seen," we come alive, we are born anew.

Jesus alone can take our brokenness and make it beautiful; transform our barrenness into the bountiful beauty befitting his glory.