Surmounting insurrection

     Where do we get off? This is Easter Sunday, and I can't help but recognize the "religiousness" of this day. I keep seeing how churches and business promote themselves using the [Easter] slogan. How do we know that People want to believe in a God, that absurdists are few and far between? From what I understand, Easter has the largest percentile difference in Sunday church attendance. We cannot deny the fact that people are seeking some kind of purpose and eternal life. Why would evolution evolve in us a desire for religion, wouldn't the law of religion restrict us in our innate need to survive? Creating a "Fair" playing field instead of the "fittest" surviving? What I hate more then anything is that one of the biggest bold face lies is told on Sunday mornings all over the country and across the world. That is that Christ died for the sole purpose of getting us the option of taking a get outta' hell free card. This isn't true at ALL. He died so that we may know the father, just check out John 17:3..People have this distorted vision of Christianity being a one and done, acceptance and back to the way I live my life, and living how I want. I have a verse for you people that just think we can go on sinning once we are saved and repent later to..well more then A verse. ¹ What shall we say, then? 

     Romans 6: Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? ² By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? ³ Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

 ⁵ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— ⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

 ⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

 ¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

     Be careful what you believe and teach, for we will be judged more harshly if we teach. Be warned, be aware, be alive in Christ. 

We are the Salt and Light

We are those born of a greater purpose, of a higher calling. Not a simply evolved being or, a being able to find inner godhood. We are chosen for the task of bringing the glory of god to this place in all that we do. “Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”(1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV). So understanding our purpose, we must also know that there are others who do not understand, who have complex philosophical quandries, and should be able to defend our faith soundly. To not be swayed like chaff in the wind.  " See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ." (Col 2:8). This is why it is so important to understand the fundamentals of what we believe, also that when we teach or speak, that it may be in truth, for those who teach are held to a higher standard. "Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly." (James 3:1). I want to help bring up a group who can go out and spread truth, for truth we try to find in the world will be in vain. Come and be a part, for we are Salt and Light.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

   14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." ( Matthew 5:13-16).

I wrote this for a Bible study group I'm starting. Follow me, if you have questions or like how I think.