It always amazes me how simple the gospel is and yet how complicated we can make it. The text says that the gospel is simply believe in the resurrection and make Jesus the lord of your life. The rest of life tends to be living out those basic principles.
History reveals to us the amazing number of heresies, creeds and debates over major and minor issues. We work so hard on the details of the implementation that we forget to hold tightly to the basic principles and embrace others who hold them as well.
North of here I drive through a town that has Walmart and several major business on the left side of the primary highway. On the right side there are three churches in a row. Only green grass separates them. There are no other businesses or houses on that side of the street. What a statement about complication and division.
Yet on a personal note, my life is always full of the same, i.e., balancing the complication of working out the implications and embracing the simplicity of making Jesus lord. My prayer is that when I die people won't look at my life as complicated and divisive but rather as focused upon a few simple truths.
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